Sentence examples for conservative dialect from inspiring English sources

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Not surprisingly, Logudorese (Logudorian) is the most conservative dialect.

The flip side of this is that females from a conservative dialect seemed to more fervently support the "signature" sound of the dialect than their fellow male speakers.

In a conservative dialect like Mix, females were more adamant in maintaining the traditions of the language, and thus more [G] and fewer [D] were used.

On the other hand, Mix females were more reserved towards this variant, likely not because they have attached anything seriously negative to it, but because they were from a more conservative dialect in general.

In other words, it is possible that female talkers in a conservative dialect tend to be more conservative than their male counterparts, while female talkers of an innovative dialect tend to be more innovative, ceteris paribus.

The only minor revision that might be needed here is that a conservative dialect could potentially disfavor new variants across the board and thus all new variants are considered as at least slightly stigmatized, which would tend to be more vigorously avoided by female talkers.

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Some conservative dialects in Norway and Sweden still retain a separate dative case for certain categories, however.

On the other hand, in the more conservative Mix dialect, females not only used the affricative realization of [Z], but also used it more often than their male counterparts.

Because most of the evidence, apart from a 15th-century glossary from Granada, is written in Arabic script (which uses no vowel signs), it is difficult to reconstruct the phonology of the language, but it appears to be a very conservative Ibero-Romance dialect.

Rhaeto-Romance and Dalmatian peculiarities can most easily be connected with the impact of other languages (mainly German, Italian, and Serbo-Croatian), whereas Sardinian is often regarded as an extremely conservative peasant language, some dialects of which have been penetrated by features from Italian and Spanish.

Modern standard Burmese has undergone more changes from Old Burmese than have most of the dialects; the Arakanese dialect is especially conservative.

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