Sentence examples for the native dialect from inspiring English sources

Prior to arrival, I had asked Claire if my inability to speak Cantonese, the native dialect of Hong Kong, was going to pose a problem.

For the past 20 years, Indian immigrants from Punjab have been settling in Italy's agricultural heartland to work primarily on farms, often as bergamini, as dairy workers are known in the native dialect.

The native dialect on feedback shows and blogs and the Radio Times letters page is outraged correction of the uniform a certain regiment would have worn, or the incorrect address to a duchess spotted in a costume drama.

"In a snowy downtrodden clearing between the adobe cliffs, on the backbone of a continent" as Frank Waters memorably sets the scene in his classic 1950 study, "Masked Gods," the large chorus of deer file in, accompanied by the beat of drums and old traditional chants in Tiwa, the native dialect of Taos and Picuris Pueblos.

At an early age Shepstone acquired great proficiency in the native dialects and culture and learned Xhosa.

Tom, as an only child, "was thrown much into the companionship of aborigines", and "became a thorough linguist in the native dialects".

That is why Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared as an indigenous dark skinned "mestiza" (mixed descent) pregnant virgin with almond shaped eyes, wearing an Aztec emperor blue colored cloak and emerald green jeweled crown with cosmic surroundings of rainbow sun light standing on a crescent and center of the moon speaking in the Nahuatl native dialect to a humble Aztec Indian convert named Juan Diego.

By writing in their native dialect, the members of the Felibrige showed a desire to stir the Provençal nation to renewed awareness of its glory.

Some Cantonese-speaking parents are deciding it is more important to point their children toward the future than the past — their family's native dialect — even if that leaves them unable to communicate well with relatives in China.

Nunez's shrewd employment of native dialect enlivens the narrative, but without efficiently enhancing plot or character.

Even so, some 70 major archaeological sites have been discovered along the creek, and it is believed that there was once an Acjachemen Indian village near the confluence of Aliso Creek and Sulphur Creek, named Niguili, which means "a large spring" in the native Luiseño dialect.