Sentence examples for a single dialect from inspiring English sources

It became more and more clear that each dialectal element or phenomenon refused to stay neatly within the borders of a single dialect area and that each had its own isogloss; consequently, maps of dialects would have to be replaced by maps showing the distribution of each particular feature.

Many terms are used with multiple denotations, or a single dialect grouping goes under several names.

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 ).

The speech is not a direct representation of any single dialect, but it serves to give a very clear effect of a working class English voice of the period.

Modern written Chinese, which replaced Classical Chinese as the written standard as an indirect result of the May Fourth Movement of 1919, is not technically bound to any single dialect; however, it most nearly represents the vocabulary and syntax of Mandarin, by far the most widespread Chinese dialect in terms of both geographical area and number of speakers.

These key benefits were achieved by removing a model-to-model transformation from the model extraction process and by using a single multi-dialect grammar instead of using a grammar for each dialect.

The contrast is between the idiolect of a single individual, and a dialect or language of a geographical, social, historical, or political group.

For example, the Danish language that most scholars consider a single language with several dialects is classified as two distinct languages (Danish and Jutish) by the Ethnologue.

Before the Yugoslav civil war, Serbo-Croatian was considered a single language with two dialects, but now Croatian and Serbian are considered different languages and employ different writing systems.

Aleut is a single language with two surviving dialects.

Or consider language: limited to no reading skills and numerous dialects across a single region or country".