Social dialects, which exhibit a number of socially significant language forms, serve to identify the status of speakers; this is especially evident in England, where social dialects transcend regional dialect boundaries.
Boundaries between dialect areas are gradual, but in Norway the divisions are usually given as East (Lowland, Midland), Trönder (around Trondheim), North, and West.
He acknowledged that his proposal of such a dialect was tentative, acknowledging that "the linguistic boundaries of the original dialects could not have enjoyed prolonged stability".
It may be also regarded as part of the boundary line between north and south Germany, for dialect, customs, local names, and native costume have traditionally been different on the two sides.
The boundary with Canada nowhere corresponds to any boundary between dialects, and the influence of United States English is strong, being felt least in the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Over much of India, and especially the Indo-Gangetic Plain, there are no clear boundaries between one vernacular and another (although ordinary villagers are sensitive to nuances of dialect that differentiate nearby localities).
Although "the dialect spoken along the eastern shore of Georgian Bay" has been described as Eastern Ojibwe, studies do not clearly delimit the boundary between Ottawa and Eastern Ojibwe.
Even if the boundaries of 16 dialects were not well defined, we could informally estimate that the East of England and, in particular, East Anglia matched up fairly well with our corresponding region (around 60% overlap between regions), although the overall overlap between telecom regions and corresponding - by largest overlap - dialects regions was only around 25%.
