Sentence examples for major dialect from inspiring English sources

These represent three major dialect areas: east, as in the inscriptions of Jaugaḍa, Dhauli, and Kālsī; west, in Girnār; and northwest, in Mānsehrā and Shāhbāzgaṛhī.

With his Bada Bing swagger and major dialect, Mr. Brescio is far and away the star of this "American Eats" episode, which doubles as an ad for his venerable pizzeria.

There are three major dialect patterns within which the various individual dialects may be classified: Northern Pashto (Pakhto), which is the variety spoken along the Afghanistan border and in and around Peshawar; Central Pashto, also called Waziri and Bannochi, spoken in Waziristan, Bannu, and Karak; and Southern Pashto, spoken in Balochistan and Quetta.

The fragmentation of Northwest Germanic can be dated roughly to the period of the 3rd 6th centuries with the development of three major dialect divisions: in Scandinavia, North Germanic; in Jutland and the northwest of Germany, North Sea Germanic; and in central Germany, South Germanic.

But in "Farewell to the Founders: Major Dialect Changes Along the East-West New England Border," three linguists show that the line separating people who drop their R's from those who don't has moved toward the east, to the Vermont-New Hampshire border — and, in the case of young people, has even encroached deep into the Granite State itself.

Pronunciations also change over time; the notion that Americans all want to sound like a TV newscaster, and that this will lead to uniformity in our speech, is a myth; Americans generally want to sound like their neighbors, and the evidence shows clearly that major dialect regions are actually diverging.

There are several major dialects, but these do not line up neatly along ethno-nationalist lines.

Modern Hungarian has eight major dialects, which permit a high degree of mutual intelligibility.

There are two major dialects: (1) eastern, called Iron, and (2) western, called Digor.

China has 31 provinces, 656 cities, 48,000 districts, seven major dialects and 80 spoken tongues.

Karelian has two major dialects, Karelian proper and Olonets (aunus in Finnish), which is spoken northeast of Lake Ladoga.