dialect

Sometimes people who live in the same place make a dialect.

Sometimes people who are similar in some way make a dialect.

Both are given as dialect, though the first was not always so.

Your dialect is difficult for me, but I understand a little.

The girl who looked at me said something in a dialect I could not understand a word of.

The history of this dialect is at least 1200 years old.

The dialect is older than any I have ever seen.

As they say in the local dialect, you got a problem with that?

Why had they left him a girl who did not speak their dialect?

There were several minutes of small talk made difficult by our dialects.

"I have learned a great deal about this dialect in the last hour."

"I know your country," he said to them in their own dialect.

Either the first two or all three could be dialects of a single language.

A few of them started speaking at the same time, in a local dialect.

The writing system is based on the standard 3-tone dialect.

Even in this support group, we seem to speak different dialects.

But many say it is more of a personal choice when to speak in dialect.

Almost every Arab state has at least one local dialect of its own.

Yet the dialect, like the knowledge of German, is being lost.

She called him that in the dialect of their childhood.

Her reply came in a dialect he had never heard before.

But most came simply to be with people like themselves, to trade stories in the old dialects and to see who else had come out.

He gave orders in what I took to be the local dialect.

The dialect a person uses is usually decided by where they live.

"I understand you," she said in the same dialect that he had used.