Sentence examples for spoken varieties from inspiring English sources

A diglossia or dichotomy also exists between formal literary varieties and spoken varieties.

The spoken varieties of Chinese are mutually unintelligible to their respective speakers.

It wasn't until about halfway through a twenty-five minute speech that the heckling broke out, and even then it was booing of the loudly spoken variety, rather than full-throated bellowing.

These digital jokes do not target officials by name — as the spoken variety sometimes do — but, rather, poke at a handful of earnest and ostensibly sacrosanct concepts promoted by the Party these days.

In linguistics, the goal of collecting corpus data is to identify and organize a representative sample of a written and/or spoken variety from which characteristics of the entire variety or genre can be induced.

Additionally, an estimated 20,000 spoke varieties of the Indonesian language.

Broadly speaking variety was a more mainstream, more sanitised form of entertainment; music hall was more dangerous, more anarchic, more satirical.

The residents of the Hebrides have spoken a variety of different languages during the long period of human occupation.

Albanian speakers in Kosovo and in Macedonia speak eastern varieties of Gheg but since 1974 have widely adopted a common orthography with Albania.

Another prize-winning pianist, Andrew Rangell, speaks on "Varieties of Variations" on Wednesday at 9 30 A.M. at Caramoor in Katonah, before performing the pieces under discussion.

To begin with, this is to help them develop what is called 'multidialectal competence' in English, part of which is the ability to comprehend (and not to speak) various varieties of English.