In the 1880s, the initiator of this great undertaking, Georg Wenker, composed 40 test sentences that illustrated most of the important ways in which dialects differed and sent them to schoolmasters in over 40,000 places in the German Empire.
Are you fluent in that language?" "Which dialect?" Beatriz shoots back.
It is a dialect continuum, in which neighbouring dialects are mutually intelligible but the cumulative differences impede or prevent understanding between groups that are some distance apart.
Opinions vary with respect to how many distinct languages there are in each branch and about which dialects belong to which languages.
This prestige is somewhat diminished in the Mix dialect and is virtually nonexistent in the 漳 Chiang dialect, in which both [z]/[dz] and [l] seem to be of approximately the same standing.
Earlier documents also afford evidence for dialect variation in the realm of phonology; e.g., the early Vedic of the Ṛgveda is a dialect in which the Indo-European l sound was for the most part replaced by r prā 'fill,' pūr-ṇa- 'full.' This change accords with Iranian e.g., Avestan pərəna- 'full.' These forms contrast with Latin plenus and Gothic fulls, with l.
The name is a play on Maryland Eastern Shore dialect, in which "them are" is pronounced as "em ahr".
If nothing else, on Long Island he will have to adjust to a regional dialect, in which at its most extreme, "paahk the caah" becomes "pauwk the caw".
Also, important urban centres, such as Paris, Utrecht, or Cologne, often form the hub of a circular region in which approximately the same dialect is spoken.
Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general literary language it becomes a jargon, meaningful only to an ingroup.
