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The real issue is not speech but the class distinctions that we read into dialect distinctions.
At one point, a missionary is translating a message about Christian redemption into dialect.
As expected, his language did not take any detours into dialect.
What does it mean, and is it a bit odd that, in celebrating the Saints' Super Bowl victory this week, we've all broken into dialect?
He roared with laughter, lapsing into dialect as he raced off into one after another of his crazy anecdotes, which culminated in an encounter with a flying saucer in the wilds of Montferrat.
Lyrical without ever sliding into dialect, the prose is a continual reminder that you're neither in the fantasy Ireland of "Finian's Rainbow" or the anguished country of the Belfast bombings, but somewhere equidistant from both.
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Lithuanian is sharply divided into dialects whose differences are quite marked.
By the middle of the 1st millennium bc, the Proto-Baltic area was already sharply split into dialects.
It is the nature of widely spoken languages to fragment into dialects, then into new languages, as Latin did into French, Italian, Spanish and others.
Latvian is divided into dialects, the major ones being the Central dialect, Livonian (also called Tahmian, or West Latvian), and High (or East) Latvian.
With the picture painted above of the tendency for languages to fragment first into dialects and then into separate languages, it might be thought that dialects are relatively late in appearance in the history of a language family.
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