Sentence examples for basis of the dialect from inspiring English sources

Wright speculated, on the basis of the dialect of Middle English, that the lyrics probably originated in Warwickshire, and suggested that a number of the songs were intended for use in mystery plays.

Literary Polish developed from the medieval period onward, on the basis of the dialects of Great Poland and Little Poland.

The literary Serbian and Croatian languages were formed in the first half of the 19th century on the basis of the Shtokavian dialects that extend over the greater part of Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, and Montenegrin territory.

Until the 18th century there was no systematic attempt to establish a literary language on the basis of the Slovak dialects, which, though closely related to Czech, had developed a separate identity from the early Middle Ages.

The Bulgars gradually mixed up with the local population, adopting a common language on the basis of the local Slavic dialect.

The sequence of migrations into the Greek mainland during the 2nd millennium BC has to be reconstructed on the basis of the ancient Greek dialects, as they presented themselves centuries later and are therefore subject to some uncertainties.

They find little difficulty using the strong MSA basis to learn the dialect of the country where they work and live.

Dialect atlases are compiled on the basis of investigations of the dialects of a large number of places; a questionnaire provides uniform data.

The Khalkha dialect constitutes the basis for the official language of Mongolia.

The language occurs in two major dialectal forms, northern and southern; the northern, or Tallinn, dialect is the basis of the Estonian literary language.

I learned quite a bit of the dialect.