dialects
Example Sentences
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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
Quebeckers accused him, among other things, of “glottophobia”—prejudice against dialects or accents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The film has inadvertently sparked a debate over the government's long-standing push for Chinese Singaporeans to speak Mandarin instead of other languages, or what they call dialects, from China.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
At the time the Speak Mandarin Campaign was launched, nearly 70% of Singaporeans spoke one of several Chinese dialects at home.
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
