In addition, Juwai operators field calls from buyers in a variety of Chinese dialects, before directing them to listing agents.
All participants learned only Mandarin and Taiwanese Southern Min and no other languages or dialects before the age of 7. None of the participants took part in any of the pretests.
Egyptian writings do not show dialect differences before Coptic, but it was probably spoken in regional dialects around Memphis and later Thebes.
At a recent Copenhagen press conference hosted by Danske Bank, the Norwegian chief executive joked "I hope you understand my dialect of Danish" before addressing the reporters in Norwegian.
Some argue that the formation of colonial-era koines started in European port cities where speakers of related dialects met before emigrating to the colonies.
The actors have dialect training even before they come in to the audition.
Although the Assiniboin spoke a Siouan dialect, Nakota, sometime before the 17th century they had broken with the powerful group of Sioux who spoke the Dakota dialect.
For the HUAS, written informed consent was obtained in the local dialect from all participating caretakers before interview.
The dialect of Spanish used in Arab-occupied Spain before the 12th century was called Mozarabic.
But as Mr. Ventris discovered, Linear B did write Greek — a very early dialect spoken 500 years before Homer and a millennium before the Classical Age.
The modern Uighur language, which was based on the Taranchi dialect spoken in Russia before the Russian Revolution of 1917, is classified with Uzbek in the southeastern (Uighur-Chagatai) branch of the Turkic languages.
