Sentence examples for dialect held from inspiring English sources

The organizers, speaking in the local Cantonese dialect, held several big media events detailing the growth of the festival this year: Submissions more than doubled, from 365 to 804.

Another ambulance driver, who was unharmed, said that police removed injured protesters from his vehicle by force and a military officer – whom he believed to be a Saudi, based on his Arabic dialect – held a gun to his head and warned him to drive away or be shot.

Not the usual poker-stiff Indian politician, Mr Gandhi strides past security cordons to grab voters' hands, tries out Awadhi, the local dialect, and holds late-night chats in low-caste homes.

All things being equal (fortunately things are seldom equal, not exactly), people prefer to be with others who look like them, speak the same dialect, and hold the same beliefs An amplification of this evidently inborn predisposition leads with frightening ease to racism and religious bigotry.

All discussions were held in the local dialect – Gonja.

The vehicle of the extant textual literature is the Pāli language, which is held to be a western Indian dialect on a substratum of several central and eastern ones.

A conference held in 1996 brought together speakers of all dialects of Ojibwe to review existing writing systems and make proposals for standardization.

Peter was quicker to assimilate — soon after they arrived he stopped speaking Twi, a Ghanaian dialect that the family used (and still uses) at home, but David held on to it.

Ms. Kolawole changed her mind when she received text and voice messages on her mobile phone in her local Yoruba dialect announcing a maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) week to be held in her state.

They held up shopping trolleys and push chairs and chanted in Venetian dialect: "Watch your legs, I'm coming through with a trolley".

Discussions were held in familiar community locations and were facilitated in the local dialect by an experienced moderator and note-taker.