Sentence examples for dialect known from inspiring English sources
The other dialect, known from only one Buddhist fragment, is connected with Tumshuq.
(Má Pêche means Mother Peach, in the Vietnamese-French dialect known as Tay Boi).
The Faliscan dialect, known from inscriptions, was originally Latin but was contaminated and modified by eastern Italic and Etruscan elements.
The people of Alsace continued to speak a German dialect known as Alsatian, but the use of French spread among the upper classes.
The population of Lower Saxony regards itself as Low German, linked by a common ancient Saxon origin and the use of the Low German dialect known as Plattdeutsch.
Instead, the family had to work with an artist who spoke their language, a German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch, to produce a sketch of the older girl.
The Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson writes of fishermen speaking "coddish" far out into the North Atlantic; the miners working the Great Northern Coalfield in England's north-east developed a sub-dialect known as "Pitmatical" or "yakka", so dense it proved incomprehensible to Victorian parliamentary commissioners seeking to improve conditions in the mines in the 1840s.
This is surely preferable to burying it in an anaerobic environment that will create a mess for our descendants to clear up.MICHAEL MERYPoint Reyes Station, CaliforniaThe Swiss waySIR In your obituary of Fritz Leutwiler (June 14th), you refer to his ability to speak more than one language, especially his understanding of the wide range of "curious" dialects known as Swiss-German.
Both sets are included, and they feature Scandinavian fiddling, Swiss yodeling, Austrian marches and dance tunes, Anglo fiddle tunes, and stories in comic French and Swedish dialects (known locally as "Frenchyman" and "Scandihoovian" tales).
The main Saka dialect is known as Khotanese, but a small amount of material survives in a closely related dialect called Tumshuq, formerly known as Maralbashi.
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.
