Sentence examples for dialect based on from inspiring English sources

The Homeric epic displays an artificial dialect based on Asiatic Ionic but interspersed with Aeolic and even Mycenaean elements inherited from a long oral tradition.

They are the men in "Miguel Street" (1959), a book of linked stories rich in comedy and dialect, based on the street in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad, where Naipaul spent his formative years.

By the 20th century, the area had developed a distinct culture: locals spoke Mekatelyu, a rapid-fire Creole dialect based on West Indian English, Calypso musicians penned ballads about banana companies and malevolent women, and the fusion of people and ingredients turned food into one of the area's enduring symbols.

If, in a qualitative model, the activity of Protein A inhibits the activity of Protein B, this would be represented as a transition with an input A, whose sign attribute is negative, and an output B. The BioPAX is a web ontology language (OWL) dialect based on RDF.

Yiddish is collection of European Jewish dialects based on High German.

In the huge empire of Alexander the Great, Macedonians and Greeks composed the new governing class; and Greek became the language of administration and culture, a new composite dialect based to some extent on Attic and called the Koine, or common language.

The pronunciation of Modern Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect, which is of the Northern, or Mandarin, type.

Standard Mandarin, a variety of Mandarin based on the Beijing dialect, is the official national language of China and is used as a lingua franca in the country between people of different linguistic backgrounds.

In the Maltese dialect (substantially based on Arabic), "Mdina" (like the Arab "Medina") means "city," and "Rabat" was derived from the Arabic word for "suburb" -- but, ironically, Mdina was eclipsed in size and encompassed by the larger Rabat long ago.

Even a standard language that was originally based on one local dialect changes, however, as elements of other dialects infiltrate into it over the years.

The second dialect pair is based on ethnicity, as there are recognizable distinctions between speakers who are Parsi and those who are Bohra.