Sentence examples for formal dialects from inspiring English sources

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The has a vocal timbre that is distinct from other characters, as the character will often speak in the common Beijing dialect, as opposed to the more formal dialects of other characters.

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It's written in almost a formal dialect.

With over 200 languages, 600 dialects and no formal script, they continue to communicate with message sticks consisting of picture sequences that communicate a message.

To allow his uneducated actors to work naturally, Tanvir used the Chhattisgarhi dialect rather than formal Hindi in his plays and worked from improvisations rather than formal scripts.

Most Americans learn formal Arabic, but the Egyptian dialect is as different from the Moroccan as French is from Spanish.Inevitably, both the Pentagon and the intelligence services have turned to recent immigrants.

In Britain and the United States and in most of the other English-speaking countries, people will almost always use the same dialect, regional or social, however formal or informal the situation and regardless of whether their listeners speak the same dialect or not.

After the formal administration of Tana Toraja, some Toraja dialects have been influenced by other languages through the transmigration program, introduced since the colonialism period, and it has been a major factor in the linguistic variety of Toraja languages.

This sort of behavior made Walser stand out in Berlin, as did his Swiss-German dialect and his lack of formal education.

The contrast between the characters' dialect and the narrator's formal diction can become heavy-handed, but Crane relished linguistic texture, allowing it to take the foreground in a way that his contemporaries William Dean Howells and Henry James almost never did.

At mealtimes he said grace twice, at length and in formal Dutch rather than the South African dialect that was to become Afrikaans.

But this is not even new: previous generations have had to grapple with the difficulty that street- speak and some specific dialects don't transport well into formal situations.

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