Sentence examples for dying dialect from inspiring English sources

Here we see his knowledge on full display: in "Roumeli" we are treated to disquisitions on Eastern monasticism, the dying dialect of the Sarakatsan tribe and the secret language of the Kravara, a region north of the Gulf of Corinth.

Once the confident accent of the ruling class, it is now, supposedly, the dying dialect of an enfeebled tribe, attracting suspicion and contempt rather than deference and respect.But it's not as simple as that.

Speaking a recognisable modern English in contrast to the phonetically presented Warwickshire dialect of the locals, the dying writer is given bleak, Lear-like prose, as when snowfall makes him reflect: "How perfect, but it only lasts one night.

Though the dialect is in danger of dying out in the next generation, traditional German cuisine promises to live on in the area.

"A whole sub-dialect of camp slang was invented to describe the dying".

Burgess imagines a meeting in Rome between the dying John Keats and Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (1791-1863), the blasphemous sonneteer who wrote in the Roman dialect.

The word "starve" once meant "to die" (compare Old English steorfan, German sterben); in most dialects of English, it now has the more restricted meaning "to die of hunger," though in the north of England "He was starving" can also mean "He was very cold" (i.e., "dying" of cold, rather than hunger).

He may be in luck: a survey by the BBC last year found that, although some rural dialects had died out, many were holding their own against London's much-damned "Estuary" accent.

Chaucer, who was born and died in London, spoke a dialect that was basically East Midland.

Luis F. Baptista, a leading expert on bird song who had learned to recognize not just bird languages but also dialects and regional accents, died on Monday at his home in Sebastopol, Calif.

Carved in the stone is the inscription "Kentoc'h mervel," which in the Breton dialect means, "We would rather die".