Sentence examples for speaking dialect from inspiring English sources

From page to page, in passages of dialogue, Ferrante tells us (and then so does the excellent translator, Ann Goldstein, who is also the head of the copy department at The New Yorker) if someone is speaking standard Italian and the other is speaking dialect, so that we can understand what is going on between them, and then, if anyone switches, as they may do, what that means.

The indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, the Andamanese, historically comprised small isolated groups all speaking dialects of the Andamanese language.

The Assyrians and the Babylonians, both speaking dialects of the Akkadian language, were responsible for most of the cuneiform writing in a form known today as Akkadian cuneiform.

Mishmi, tribal people mostly of Arunachal Pradesh (formerly North East Frontier Agency) in extreme northeastern India, near Tibet and Assam, speaking dialects of the Tibeto-Burman linguistic family.

The Berber language in Morocco is a spoken dialect and as yet has no written alphabet.

He knew the spoken dialect of the rugged country between north Staffordshire and south Lancashire.

A widely spoken dialect has been defined as Celto-Gallic, akin to the Piedmont and Lombardy dialects as well as to that of Romagna.

The Cyrillic script language used in Mongolia is sometimes called Modern Mongolian and sometimes Khalkha, after the spoken dialect on which it is based.

Writing for Ms. Magazine, Erin Aubry Kaplan wonders, "Why must blacks speak dialect to be authentic?

Bahrani Arabic is the most widely spoken dialect of the Arabic language, though this differs slightly from standard Arabic.

*Adjusted for age, height, weight, sex, smoking status, education, socioeconomic status, spoken dialect and arsenic levels.