These languages include Arabic, a dialect of which is spoken in Iraq, and Pashto and Dari, which are spoken in Afghanistan.
Here she listened to the stories of her elders while the cadences of the local dialect – of which she does a very passable impression – developed her ear for language.
Nothing works more Frenchly and merrily this way — shape-shifting at a rapid pace — than Internet language, which morphs from standard English (a dialect of which has become the Web's lingua franca) to other languages and dialects to slang and emoticons and acronyms and phonetic miscellany.
350 400 Portuguese lexical items are found in the Mangalorean Catholic dialect, of which more than half are related to religious terminology.
The Roman dialect was originally one of a number of Latinian dialects, of which the most important was Faliscan, the language of Falerii (modern Civita Castellana), the most-important Faliscan city, located 32 miles (51 kilometres) north of Rome.
One was called KLT, from the initials of the Breton names of the dioceses of Cornouaille, Léon, and Tréguier, the dialects of which agree with Welsh and Cornish in having the stress accent on the next to the last syllable.
The delegates from the north, who spoke Mandarin dialects, of which the speech of the capital is the best-known example, were evenly matched by delegates from the south, notably from Shanghai.
Rhaeto-Romance and Dalmatian peculiarities can most easily be connected with the impact of other languages (mainly German, Italian, and Serbo-Croatian), whereas Sardinian is often regarded as an extremely conservative peasant language, some dialects of which have been penetrated by features from Italian and Spanish.
The main languages derived from Sanskrit are Bengali, Hindi (with its many dialects, of which Maithili is the oldest and Urdu, heavily influenced by Persian and Arabic and written in a Perso-Arabic script, is the most important), Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Assamese, Nepali, Rajasthani, and Sinhalese.
The features shared by the local speech of different regions allow the delineation of dialect groups, of which the Greeks themselves were aware.
Other languages used included Hindi, Kikuyu, Somali, Luo and the Sheng dialect, many of which were combined with English.
