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In Chinese, nouns tend to be the same (same etymon) all across the dialectal range (the Sinitic languages); whereas verbs may differ from one dialect to the next – almost from one village to the next, in the old days (Halliday 2005, ch. 4).
Ironically, it was that genteel Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott who first introduced carefully rendered dialect to the British novel.
Indeed, in its 300-odd pages, the "Encyclopedia of Pasta" ranges from abbotta pezziende, a short pasta that means "feed the beggar" in Abruzzo dialect, to the zumari of Puglia, a long pasta traditionally added to vegetable soups.
Mari El's three main dialects are the Meadow dialect, used by the largest group north of the Volga and the basic dialect of the republic; Eastern Mari, used by a small group near Ufa, originally speakers of the Meadow dialect who emigrated in the late 18th century; and the Mountain dialect, to the west and on the south bank of the Volga.
When Hines wrote The Blinder, the son and grandson of miners was still finding his literary voice – the one that transferred the blunt Barnsley dialect to the printed page and blossomed to such wonderful effect in A Kestrel for a Knave.
In contrast, Mestrovic's art seeks to restore dialect to the conversation.
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Awiya, a dialect spoken south of Lake Tana, is believed to contain the strongest similarities of any of the dialects to the ancient Agau language.
These dialects have traditionally been called "Frankish"; the dialects of the northeastern part of the Netherlands (Overijssel, Drenthe, Groningen) have been called "Saxon" and show certain affinities with Low German dialects to the east.
The domain of the Proto-Balto-Slavic dialect may have been situated to the east of the Germanic and other Old European dialects, to the north of Ancient Balkanic, and to the west of Tocharian.
When his mother, who is from Liverpool, read him books like "Babar" or "Curious George" she often gave British dialects to the characters.
On the basis of other linguistic features, it is also possible to group together the dialects to the south and to the north of the Rhine and Meuse rivers.
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