Sentence examples for national dialect from inspiring English sources

It's a distinct national dialect, with words and grammatical features that are unfamiliar elsewhere.

In Algerian schools, the French had at one point tried to replace fusha with the national dialect.

Using child workers from a remote region, many of whom cannot even speak Mandarin, the country's main national dialect, have provided a temporary, albeit illegal, solution.

He and Yumi were talking by this time, though the strain on her was considerable, since words in the national dialect, putonghua, kept cropping up in his speech.

Jennifer, who is fluent in Cantonese, English and Mandarin, China's national dialect, which is now a required subject in local schools, believes there are really only two camps among young Hong Kong people like herself.

There is an arguable difference between slurs that have been somewhat assimilated into our national dialect and those whose only use and meaning refers to the specific group that they are intended to insult.

National dialects, on the other hand, travel badly, with something like Algerian Arabic difficult for a Levantine reader to grasp.

Some parts are frustratingly brief: his treatment of the overly rigid approach of state language authorities in dealing with national dialects is one example.

In 16th-century France, with the Renaissance backed by the Reformation and the advent of printing, French really assumed the remaining scholarly, scientific, and religious functions of Latin, and efforts were made to put together a worthy national language from dialect and Latin sources.

The Spanish spoken by farmworkers has national and regional dialects.

Asturian and Galician (both spoken in Spain and Portugal), Corsican (France and Italy), and Piemontese, or Piedmontese (Italy), were once considered dialects of national languages, but by the 21st century they were considered distinct enough from the languages of their respective countries to be granted the status of languages.