Sample Sentences for
dialect
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    She spoke Mandarin slightly blurred with a Shanghai dialect.  (source)
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    They ... amazed the students with their vast knowledge of not only French, but also English, Swahili, and several African dialects.  (source)
    dialects = regional varieties of a language
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    I am myself a student of Indian dialects;  (source)
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    I tried to speak Mandingo with him, but he only knew a little, and only the northern dialect.  (source)
    dialect = regional variety of a language
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    I knew the dialects.†  (source)
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    So the names Dyaus, Zeus, lov, and Tyr are dialectal variants of the same word.†  (source)
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    The girl who looked at me said something in a dialect I could not understand a word of.  (source)
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    I did not, like him, attempt a critical knowledge of their dialects, for I did not contemplate making any other use of them than temporary amusement.†  (source)
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    the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect  (source)
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    Tristero's giving its employees crash courses in Siouan and Athapascan dialects.†  (source)
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    addressing him in every dialect  (source)
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    But underneath the public posture, Franklin, like so many of Brown's upwardly mobile minority students, is becoming skilled in the many dialects he'll need to get ahead.†  (source)
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    Playing a pawn in this foolish game is one thing, but to be insulted with minstrel show dialect ...†  (source)
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