Sentence examples for major dialect divisions from inspiring English sources

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.

They are not, however, homogeneous, each having its own dialect divisions.

For the same reasons, dialect divisions that earlier would have widened into distinct languages are now unlikely to do so.

In fact, dialect divisions must have been a feature of linguistic communities as early as there is any knowledge of them.

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.

Another major dialect spoken is Hakka.

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.