Sentence examples for group of dialects from inspiring English sources

Venetan, group of dialects of Italian spoken in northeastern Italy.

Before Latin spread out, Oscan was the most widely spoken group of dialects of the Apennine Peninsula.

Ballet is a group of dialects: Twyla Tharp insinuates sassy hip thrusts into Beethoven's Seventh Symphony for New York City Ballet.

Oscan was the name given by the Romans to a group of dialects spoken by Samnite tribes to the south of Rome.

An additional 114,000 speak Aromanian (also called Macedoromanian, or Vlach), a group of dialects scattered across Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, and Romania.

Old High German, a group of dialects for which there was no standard literary language, was spoken until about 1100 in the highlands of southern Germany.

The evidence seems to indicate that there are three groups of dialects in the Tai family.

Rhaetian dialects, also called Rhaeto-Romance, group of Romance dialects spoken in Switzerland and northern Italy, the most important of which are two dialects, Sursilvan and Sutsilvan, that constitute the main dialects of the Romansh language.

Franco-Provençal dialect, any of a group of Romance dialects spoken in east-central France (northeast of the Occitan language area) in a region roughly corresponding to Burgundy and in adjacent areas of Italy and Switzerland.

A third main group of Croatian dialects, spoken in northwestern Croatia, uses kaj rather than što or ča and is therefore called Kajkavian.

These languages diverged from the main group of Mongolian dialects and to this day retain archaic features characteristic of Middle Mongolian that have been lost in other Mongolian languages; e.g., many retain /f/ and /h/ from Proto-Altaic */p/ (an asterisk identifies a sound as a hypothetical, reconstructed form), as well as unassimilated vowel sequences.