Sentence examples for main dialect groups from inspiring English sources

There are three main dialect groups.

Sami is generally divided into three main dialect groups, each comprising various subtypes.

Three main dialect groups can be distinguished northern, central, and southern.

Mansi has four main dialect groups, of which one (Tavda) is practically extinct and another (Konda) is spoken only by individuals above a certain age.

There are three main dialect groups in Saudi Arabia in the eastern, central, and western parts of the country though these are not always clearly discernible from one another because of the pervasiveness of local variations.

There are three main dialect groups: (1) the northern dialects, similar to the neighbouring Serbian dialects, (2) the eastern dialects, similar to and gradually shading into Bulgarian, and (3) the western dialects, most distinct from Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian and therefore chosen by the Yugoslav authorities in 1944 as the basis for the standard language.

Despite differences in phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, Portuguese is often mutually intelligible with Spanish.There are four main Portuguese dialect groups, all mutually intelligible: (1) Central, or Beira, (2) Southern (Estremenho), including Lisbon, Alentejo, and Algarve, (3) Insular, including the dialects of Madeira and the Azores, and (4) Brazilian.

The Ryukyuan language, which is classified with Japanese, consists of three dialect groups corresponding to the main island clusters.

Their language is the main dialect and language of the Efik-Ibibio group of the Benue-Congo branch of Niger-Congo languages.

There is no mutual intelligibility between these dialects and Japanese nor among the dialect groups.

Doric was one of the major dialects of the Classical Greek language, along with the Ionic-Attic, Aeolic, and Arcado-Cypriot dialect groups.