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Example sentences for: dialects
How can you use “dialects” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Kurdish consists of several mutually unintelligible dialects, linguistic relatives of Persian, the language of Iran.
This was simply a bear , but the pronunciation was different in the Bloxwich area, as it is in other English dialects.
In Melbourne, the Victorian languages, Wuywurung (spoken in three dialects on the site of Melbourne and to the north and west) and Wathawurung (spoken on the western side of Port Phillip Bay) were the first source of borrowings, though the surviving words number no more than sixteen.
Do you think it ironic that there is interest in some of these languages at the same time there is such hostility to other languages and nonstandard dialects?
But the one thing that's been most striking recently is the response to an "On Language" column by Margalit Fox in the New York Times Magazine . Ms Fox, filling in for William Safire, wrote about a common "language myth": that some dialects are intrinsically better than others.
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