Sentence examples for dialect use from inspiring English sources

During the second half of the twentieth century, Czech dialect use began to weaken.

By the early 1990s dialect use was stigmatized, associated with the shrinking lower class and used in literature or other media for comedic effect.

Speakers of the Shanghainese dialect use this expression to say "I love you".

Three literary dialects were in use in the 19th century: a Low Lithuanian dialect along the Baltic Sea coast, an East High Lithuanian poetic dialect, and a West High Lithuanian dialect, used primarily in the region bordering East Prussia.

Such oral narrative devices go hand in hand with the book's use of non-standard English, the island dialect used in both dialogue and narrative passages.

They favoured High German over Yiddish, the German-Jewish dialect used by many East European Jews, and their synagogues looked like churches.

Śaurasenī is the literary dialect used for conversation between higher personages other than the king and his captains in the drama, while other dialects are used by lower personages.

Standard High German is based on, but not identical with, the Middle German dialect used by Martin Luther in his 16th-century translation of the Bible.

Of these the most important are eme-gir, the official dialect of Sumerian, and eme-SAL, the dialect used often in the composition of hymns and incantations (see also cuneiform).

However Hawaiian is a nearly extinct language; you're more likely to catch the local pidgin dialect, used often in the novels and stories written by authors born and raised in the islands.

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.