All 15 Uses
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- Burnah speaks Mende and two Mandingo dialects.†
Chpt 1.5dialects = regional varieties of a language
- "Your honor, I am afraid these blacks all speak an obscure field dialect," Ruiz said quickly.†
Chpt 2.7dialect = regional variety of a language
- No matter how obscure the field dialect, one would think that a man would know his name, the name he has been called by his masters since birth.†
Chpt 2.7
- And that language that the leader inveighed His Honor Judge Judson with, that wasn't any amalgamation of Spanish, dialect or not.†
Chpt 2.7
- I tried to speak Mandingo with him, but he only knew a little, and only the northern dialect.
Chpt 2.7 *
- They have human form, they wear clothes, they speak a language, though certainly not Spanish or some sort of contrived 'field dialect.'†
Chpt 2.7
- "Your Honor," Holabird objected, "it is also in the same record that Mr. Ruiz and Montes clearly stated that the slaves speak an obscure field dialect."†
Chpt 2.7
- Will your clients swear to the existence of this obscure field dialect today?†
Chpt 2.7
- He testified that these men did in fact speak an African language and not a Spanish-inflected dialect.†
Chpt 2.7
- Certainly there would be a sailor, probably a black one, on some ship, that spoke the language as well as English or some other dialect of the west.†
Chpt 2.8
- I am looking for a man who speaks an African dialect.†
Chpt 2.8
- Well, I do not know exactly what language, but I believe it is a Western African dialect, though not Congolese.†
Chpt 2.8
- To that end, gentlemen, do any of you speak an African dialect in any degree of fluency?†
Chpt 2.8
- "Yes," Holabird said, "but as I understand it, many of the slaves, especially those on back country plantations, retain the African language of their ancestors or speak a field dialect that is an amalgamation of Spanish and tribal languages."†
Chpt 2.9
- "Your Honor," Holabird said, "while certain members of this band of blacks have shown themselves to be cunning and clever, it is well known that the black race is not a very bright one, and it is entirely possible that these men only comprehend the field dialect that they were raised with."†
Chpt 2.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(dialect) a regional variety of a languageA dialect can use a different accent, vocabulary, and grammar than other dialects of the same language.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)