Sentence examples for divergent dialects from inspiring English sources

No one heard the performance better than West Virginia University's resident linguist, Dr. Kirk Hazen, who has spent years roaming Appalachia to track its richly divergent dialects.

As a language label the term "Nahuatl" encompasses a group of closely related languages or divergent dialects within the Aztecan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

Bolivian Sign Language is reported to be a dialect of ASL, no more divergent than other acknowledged dialects.

Karkin was a dialect quite divergent from the rest of the family.

From this "pre-Hellenic" stratum, Greek vocabulary made numerous borrowings (kyparissos 'cypress,' asaminthos 'bathing tub,' and so on), and it received from it a number of place-names (e.g., Korinthos), but there is no reason to think that the divergent characters of the Greek dialects (in phonetics and morphology) could be connected with different substrata.

According to this belief, dialects of Latin result from divergent developments, either through innovations in restricted areas or through the geographically restricted preservation of some features.

Brunei Malay is rather divergent from standard Malay and the rest of the Malay dialects, being about 84% cognate with standard Malay, and is mostly mutually unintelligible with it.

Locals often trace the city's famous tolerance to this event; because the inhabitants spoke various dialects and had different traditions, they had to learn to accept divergent views.

The dialects spoken in the city of Vinh and in much of Nghe An province are more divergent.

Different dialects.

As the result of divergent spelling conventions and differences in vocabulary, written Khalkha and Buryat differ from one another much more than do the closely related spoken dialects on which they are based.