The lad in the canoe regarded the captain earnestly, then turned to his companions again for another low colloquy in an unintelligible dialect.

When the Spanish arrived in 1509, they found a flourishing and heterogeneous Amerindian population that numbered between 1.5 million and 2 million, belonged to several hundred tribes, and largely spoke mutually unintelligible dialects.

Western Naxi (or Naxi proper) is fairly homogeneous, whereas Eastern Naxi (or Na) consists of several mutually unintelligible dialects.

They speak a mutually unintelligible dialect commonly called Yanghuang, which is more common known as the Then language in Western literature.

The fragmentation of Konkani into various, sometimes mutually unintelligible dialects.

He speaks a fictitious and unintelligible dialect, upon his misfortunes and hardships of Italy and uselessness of his vote.

Languages are encouraged to die out, except for a few remaining mutually unintelligible local dialects, and are replaced amongst serfs by the slurred Drakan version of English.

Kurdish consists of several mutually unintelligible dialects, linguistic relatives of Persian, the language of Iran.

When a "general word," is shared across multiple mutually unintelligible dialects, it is regarded as the same word even though it is pronounced differently depending on a speaker's region.

Nearly every county has its own distinct dialect unintelligible to a speaker a few counties away.