Sentence examples for mutually intelligible dialects from inspiring English sources

Two mutually intelligible dialects survive, Eastern Aleut and Atkan Aleut.

Before colonization there were four Yana divisions Northern, Central, and Southern Yana, as well as Yahi speaking mutually intelligible dialects.

They form part of the southern Nguni and speak mutually intelligible dialects of Xhosa, a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo family.

The spread of early loans from Latin throughout all Germanic languages indicates that, at the time of their borrowing, a continuum of mutually intelligible dialects must still have existed, though differences between widely separated points in the continuum may have been significant.

There are several mutually intelligible dialects, spoken on the fifteen islands.

In Eldamar, the Noldor and Vanyar spoke two slightly different though mutually intelligible dialects of Tarquesta: Noldorin Quenya and Vanyarin Quenya.

All Swedish dialects with the exception of the highly diverging forms of speech in Dalarna, Norrbotten and, to some extent, Gotland can be considered to be part of a common, mutually intelligible dialect continuum.

Each community usually speaks its own dialect of Kaqchikel, which is mutually intelligible with other dialects of Kaqchikel and is partly intelligible with K'iche' and Tz'utujil.

But these regional differences are probably of less concern if one notices that bioethics comes in many not always mutually understandable dialects.

In straightforward cases, varieties of language that are mutually intelligible are classified as dialects, while varieties of speech that are not mutually intelligible are classified as separate languages.

It is a dialect continuum, in which neighbouring dialects are mutually intelligible but the cumulative differences impede or prevent understanding between groups that are some distance apart.