Sentence examples similar to dialectal shifts from inspiring English sources

As a general rule, those dialects, or at least certain dialectal features, with greater social prestige tend to replace those that are valued lower on the social scale.

The earliest literary tradition had a Western Yiddish dialectal base; writing in this literary dialect continued into the Modern Yiddish period long after the major population centres had shifted to the east.

Although Italian has a standard literary form, based on the dialect of Florence, the common speech is dialectal or a local variant of Standard Italian.

Little dialectal variation was observed, and all three dialects unanimously adopted [L] as the predominant category.

The language occurs in two major dialectal forms, northern and southern; the northern, or Tallinn, dialect is the basis of the Estonian literary language.

With the accumulation of dialectal data, investigators became increasingly conscious of the inadequacy of viewing dialects as internally consistent units that were sharply differentiated from neighbouring dialects.

Two dialectal varieties are distinguished.

There are numerous dialectal forms.

There are about 24 subgroups with dialectal and cultural differences.

The modifications noted above represent both chronological and dialectal modifications.

Only very minor dialectal differences are found within Udmurt.