Hungarian has essentially the same system, differing only in certain minor details (short e is the front vowel counterpart of a)—e.g., asztal 'table,' asztalok 'tables,' asztalokban 'in the tables,' but föld 'land,' földök 'lands,' földökben 'in the lands.' Similar though less general front-back vowel-harmony systems are found in given dialects of Mordvin, Mari, Mansi, Khanty, and Kamas.
In the second half of the 19th century, when historical and comparative linguistic study was flourishing, it became customary to focus attention on the fate of particular elements of the archaic language in a given dialect e.g., the changes that Latin vowels and consonants underwent when used in different positions in a particular Romance dialect.
A woman in the audience who had been studying Basque complained that she had been given the wrong dialect.
Not everything is included, as there were lots of shrugs and hand signals used to make ourselves understood, but they seemed to understand most of what I was saying in modern standard Arabic, which is surprising given the Iraqi dialect.
In a position analogous to that of North Sea Germanic within Northwest Germanic, there surely existed transitional dialects between North Sea and South Germanic within West Germanic; the Old Saxon language may well reflect such a dialect, given that it shows a mixture of features agreeing with North Sea Germanic, as in English and Frisian, and with South Germanic, as in Old High German.
When his mother, who is from Liverpool, read him books like "Babar" or "Curious George" she often gave British dialects to the characters.
ON A call with a bank call center, I was just given a little dialect-identification practice.
A lesser status (including recognition under Part II of the Charter) is given to Ulster Scots dialects, which are spoken by roughly 2% of Northern Ireland residents, and also spoken by some in the Republic of Ireland.
Given the many dialects of the Arabic language, some terms may differ between one Arab country to another and even from one region to another in the same country.
Instead of seeking overarching laws, the call was to "contextualize," "complexify," "relativize," "particularize" and even "problematize," a word that in their dialect was given an oddly positive spin.
