Sentence examples for as a dialect of from inspiring English sources

Initially described by the Danish language scholar Rasmus Rask who wrote the first Faroese grammar (1811)—as a dialect of Icelandic, Faroese is actually an independent language, intermediate between West Norwegian and Icelandic and containing many Danish loanwords.

The language, Bukhori, developed as a dialect of the Tajik-Farsi language into a mixture of Farsi, Hebrew, and Russian.

Cebuano is closely related to the languages of the Hiligaynon (Ilongo) and Waray-Waray, and it is sometimes grouped with those languages as a dialect of Visayan (Bisayan).

Braj Bhasha, which was an important literary medium from the 15th to the 19th century, is often treated as a dialect of Hindi, as are Awadhi, Bagheli, Bhojpuri, Bundeli, Chhattisgarhi, Garhwali, Haryanawi, Kanauji, Kumayuni, Magahi, and Marwari.

Central to the controversial assertion of Silesian nationality were conflicting linguistic interpretations: some scholars (and Silesian nationalists) argued that Silesian was a language unto itself, while other scholars (and the Polish government) classified Silesian as a dialect of Polish.

That doesn't mean much in practice, but symbolically it was a matter of great pride to just about everyone I met; the distinction all but stopped dismissive talk of Mirandese as a dialect of Portuguese.

Under his breath, the sweeper said, "As long as it's a dialect of human beings, it's legitimate".

In a letter to a friend he wrote: "There is a dialectic of personality just as there is a dialect of history (and it's just as unpredictable)." Rereading the book it is impossible not to brood on what was going to happen next to both the moral and the fatal Englishman.

Catalan is not, as some believe, a dialect of Spanish, but a language that developed independently out of the vulgar Latin spoken by the Romans who colonised the Tarragona area.

Until this time, the language was not thought of as separate and simply considered a dialect of the Persian language.

A dialect of Persian known as Dari is recognized, moreover, as a second language in Afghanistan.