The language occurs in two major dialectal forms, northern and southern; the northern, or Tallinn, dialect is the basis of the Estonian literary language.
The central dialects, among several large dialect zones, form the basis for Standard Belarusian.
Parental dialects were derived from mapping parental hometowns onto Ang's 洪惟仁 (2013) Min dialectal map, and were the main basis for determining the speakers' dialect, as Min is considered to be mainly a language of private domains (Huang 黃宣範 1993), and thus, home should be a major setting for Min usage.
Our results demonstrate that stroke-based solutions for Chinese character entry can be effective alternatives for mobile phones, providing an effective alternative for the many individuals who can write Chinese but do not speak the Mandarin dialect that serves as the basis for Pinyin.
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.
In 1939, Dr. Ida C. Ward led a research expedition on Igbo dialects which could possibly be used as a basis of a standard Igbo dialect, also known as Central Igbo.
Literary Polish developed from the medieval period onward, on the basis of the dialects of Great Poland and Little Poland.
Dialect atlases are compiled on the basis of investigations of the dialects of a large number of places; a questionnaire provides uniform data.
The number varies considerably among the different Mandarin dialects; but in the dialect of Beijing, which is the basis of standard Mandarin (pǔtōnghuà, the 'common tongue'), the number of distinct syllables is 400 ± 2.
Another obstacle preventing its widespread adoption was its narrow basis on the Beijing dialect, in a period lacking a strong centralized government to enforce its use.
