dialect
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The new dialect will make it harder for humans to monitor what they are doing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
Characters speak with a more casual, modern dialect.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Faizi said "tasks have been divided between men and women" for generations in the Parun Valley, where residents speak their own dialect.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Well, we had two weeks of study in the Olinka dialect, which the people in this region speak.
From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
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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
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
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
They never answered when she spoke to them, as if they did not understand Spanish, and when they spoke among themselves they always whispered or used one of the mountain dialects.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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