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A crowd then gathered around the corpse, singing a dirge in a local Swahili dialect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Yet the director considers the series’ standout moments to be those in Mallorquin, Nadal’s native Catalan dialect, in which the athlete appears at his most natural.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

He admitted in 2024 that his grasp on the dialect was “horrible.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Characters speak with a more casual, modern dialect.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

The dialect of Yiddish spoken in Romania was a lot more similar to other Eastern dialects than it was to the kind spoken in Holland.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

The Prespa lakes region is home to herding peoples, the Vlachs and Sarakatsani, who seem to be vanishing, taking their dialects with them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

“I don’t speak their dialects, but I speak Taiwanese.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

What began as an attempt to unify the Chinese community in Singapore has proven so effective that, some argue, it has driven dialects like Teochew, Hokkien, Cantonese and Hakka into an irreversible decline.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Still, young Singaporeans have shown growing interest in connecting with their heritage, from learning the dwindling dialects of their grandparents to taking lessons and organising trips to ancestral hometowns in China.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Double negatives, ain’t, and other nonstandard forms soon became stigmatized by their association with the less prestigious dialects of English used by its poorer and less educated speakers.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker