dialects
Example Sentences
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“I don’t speak their dialects, but I speak Taiwanese.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Quebeckers accused him, among other things, of “glottophobia”—prejudice against dialects or accents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Since the 1990s, the Speak Mandarin Campaign has shifted its focus to English-educated ethnic Chinese, and away from those who speak dialects.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
It's not just the dialects that are disappearing, but also the traditions that came with them.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Apparently, even at the time o f the Cognitive Revolution, different Sapiens groups had different dialects.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
