Even Modern Persian does not represent a straightforward continuation of Middle Persian but is rather a koine (a dialect or language of a small area that becomes a common or standard language of a larger area), based mainly on Middle Persian and Parthian but including elements from other languages and dialects.
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The contrast is between the idiolect of a single individual, and a dialect or language of a geographical, social, historical, or political group.
Probably most children on earth grow up using a dialect or even a language at home different from the one textbooks are written in.
Cultural signs may be found among people that speak a local dialect or live in a specific region or historical period.
Within the context of refugee trauma research, the background characteristics of the interpreter, such as having a different dialect or being from a different ethnic group than the refugee being interviewed, may influence disclosure as well as translation.
This is a human landscape in a stunning setting; you are as likely to stumble upon a cranky shepherd speaking an indecipherable dialect or a herd of well-mannered German trekkers as you are to wander through an empty meadow.
But there are differences in the way Catalan is spoken in these three regions, and in the 1980s there were politically motivated disputes as to whether Valencian was a Catalan dialect or a distinct language.
Even within a single dialect or a single speaker, the same noun may take different measure words depending on the style in which the person is speaking, or on different nuances the person wants to convey (for instance, measure words can reflect the speaker's judgment of or opinion about the object ).
Patients who spoke a non-Cantonese dialect or a different language, had conditions that prevented effective communication (for example, patients who are deaf, mute, or have dementia or other psychological disorders) were excluded from the study.
