dialect

Many deaf children in Kenya learn a patchwork of makeshift signs, and the local dialect lacks many technical terms used to teach subjects like maths and biology.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

And then there are just simply words in the American dialect that can take me down, like “murderer” or “world,” sometimes “girl” is tricky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

He added: "It's the one that we suffer from the most - the social markers, the local dialect, who you are, and where you should be in life, because of how you speak."

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

When he speaks casually, it’s in a strong Philadelphia dialect, like just about everybody else in Levittown.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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

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

But Tan Ying Ying, an associate professor at Nanyang Technological University who studies dialects, isn't optimistic that this will reverse the trend.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Mother,” they called to her, in the dialects of Astapor, Lys, and Old Volantis, in guttural Dothraki and the liquid syllables of Qarth, even in the Common Tongue ofWesterns.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin