Sentence examples for major dialect areas 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.

The dialects of the area bounded roughly by Amsterdam, The Hague, and Rotterdam are closer to Standard Dutch than are those of the other dialect areas.

Though texts from all dialect areas have survived, the texts from Flanders are by far the most numerous.

Another major dialect spoken is Hakka.

Canger originally considered the central dialect area to be an innovative subarea within the Western branch, but in 2011 suggested that it arose as an urban koine with features from both Western and Eastern dialect areas.

We restricted recruitment to the two major dialect groups of Chinese in Singapore, the Hokkiens and the Cantonese.

Recruitment was restricted only to men and women of Chinese ethnicity (from the two major dialect groups, Hokkiens and Cantonese) aged between 45 and 74 years.

The age eligibility criterion was 45 74 years and recruitment was restricted to the two major dialect groups of Chinese in Singapore, the Hokkiens and the Cantonese.

We restricted the study to individuals belonging to the two major dialect groups of Chinese in Singapore: the Hokkiens and the Cantonese.

The eligible age range for cohort enrollment was 45 74 years, and was restricted to the two major dialect groups of Chinese in Singapore, Hokkien, and Cantonese.

Briefly, the cohort was drawn from men and women, aged 45 74 years, who belonged to one of the major dialect groups (Hokkien or Cantonese) of Chinese in Singapore.