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unusual facts about dialect



Abzhui

They live primarily in the Kodori River valley, of Abkhazia, and have their own dialect of the Abkhaz language.

Ancient Greek

This dialect slowly replaced most of the older dialects, although Doric dialect has survived to the present in the form of the Tsakonian dialect of Modern Greek, spoken in the region of modern Sparta.

Are Bhashe dialect

In Sullia Taluk, as the majority of the population belongs to Gowda community, most of others also generally communicate in the same dialect.

Arebhashe is a dialect of the Kannada language, particularly, spoken by the people belonging to ‘Gowda’ community (among Hindus) in the regions of Kodagu district and Sullia of Dakshina Kannada.

Bangru

Haryanvi language or Bangru, a dialect of Hindi most widely spoken in the North Indian state of Haryana

Basay language

Basay data is mostly available from Erin Asai's 1936 field notes, which were collected from an elderly Basay speaker in Shinshe, Taipei, as well as another one in Yilan who spoken the Trobiawan dialect (Li 1999).

Bedzan people

They live at the interface of the forest and the savannah, and their language is a dialect of Tikar, which is related to the Bantu languages.

Black Boneens

The term Boneen is Newfoundland Gaelic dialect for a young pig (derived from Dineen > Erse Gaelic).

Black Sea Region

Though the overwhelming majority is Turkish, the east of the region is also inhabited by the Laz, a people who speak a Georgian dialect and converted to Islam from Georgian Orthodoxy in the late Ottoman period as well as Muslim Georgians, also the Hemsin, Armenian converts to Islam, and Pontic Greeks, who converted to Islam in 17th century.

Brayon

Classification of Brayon as a dialect within Quebec French is largely disputed, as unlike Acadian French, for example, Brayon does not possess its own words or definition.

Brigasc dialect

In 1947, when France obtained Briga and Tenda from Italy, some French scholars wanted to catalogue Brigasc as an Occitan dialect.

Chinese hip hop

In the late 90s Hong Kong's Softhard and LMF were influential though their Cantonese dialect was foreign to Mandarin speaking regions, while Taiwan's MC HotDog, Da Xi Men, and Da Zhi were more widely intelligible in mainland China.

Fuzhou dialect

Most of the characters of Fuzhou dialect stem from Ancient Chinese and can therefore be written in Chinese characters.

Galičnik dialect

Also the dialect is spoken in many other small villages including the village Gari.

Gujarati languages

Vaghri, Aer, and the Koli dialect cluster are sometimes included, but Koli is also classified as Sindhi, and Aer is closest to Koli.

History of Greek

As Greek culture under Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) and his successors spread from Asia Minor to Egypt and the border regions of India the Attic dialect became the basis of the Koiné (Κοινή; "common").

Hohenlohisch dialect

It is spoken in Landkreis Schwäbisch Hall, Hohenlohekreis and what was formerly the Bad Mergentheim Landkreis (now in the Main-Tauber-Kreis), although the latter has recently been assumed into the Tauber-Franconian dialect group.

Irpinian dialect

The Irpinian dialect, or Irpino is the dialect spoken in almost all of the comuni in the Province of Avellino in the Italian region of Campania.

Italian classical music

Thus, we know that there was a vibrant troubador tradition in the 12th century in the Provence in their language and we know that 1000 miles away on the island of Sicily there was also a vibrant troubador tradition at the Hohenstaufen court of Frederick II, songs sung in the dialect of the people (very much influenced, for example, by Arabic), but it is conjecture as to exactly what either one sounded like.

Kainai Nation

The Kainai speak a language of the Algonquian linguistic group; their dialect is closely related to those of the Siksika and Peigan.

Keith Skipper

He was born at Beeston, Norfolk and currently lives in Cromer, He is a champion of the Norfolk dialect, and was a founder of F.O.N.D. (Friends of Norfolk Dialect).

Lemba people

#The old Lemba language was a dialect of Karanga – which is spoken today in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe; (thus, the Lemba female ancestry was probably derived from the MaKaranga).

Lincoln Thornton Manuscript

Derek Brewer calculated that there must have been at least six now-lost manuscripts that provided the source material for the Thornton MS, which evidences a wide "spread of manuscripts now lost." Sir Percyvelle, for instance, was originally composed in the fourteenth century in a north-east Midland dialect, and one version would have traveled north to be copied by Thornton while another traveled south to be referenced by Geoffrey Chaucer in Sir Thopas.

Mahakali Zone

Dotiyali dialect of Kumauni language is spoken in Dadeldhura District and Baitada dialect of Kumauni language is spoken in Baitadi and Darchula districts.

Malaueg

The Spanish influence is very prominent in the Malaueg dialect which consists of old Spanish (Castilian) nouns and verbs.

Maojia dialect

The representative dialect given in Chen (2013) is that of Xintang Village 信塘村, Yangshi Township 羊石乡, Chengbu Miao Autonomous County

Mappila dialect of Malayalam

Often, the Malayalee Muslim community of Malaysia and Singapore and few of them in Kerala write Malayalam using Arabic Script.The dialect is extensively spoken by Muslims in the North Malabar region of Kerala i.e. in the districts of Malappuram, Kozhikode, Palghat, Wayanad, Trichur, Kannur and Kasaragod.

Marchigiano dialect

The dialect of Ancona is spoken in the region of the town of Ancona, Porto Recanati, Loreto, Osimo, Jesi, Chiaravalle and Falconara.

Modern kana usage

Regarding じぢずづ – these four morae are distinguished or merged to varying degrees in different Japanese dialects, with some dialects (Tohoku) merging all 4 into 1, while other dialects (Tosa dialect, Kagoshima dialect) distinguishing all 4.

Multani

Multani dialect, a dialect of Lahnda/Punjabi spoken in southern Punjab, Pakistan

Nanai language

Kur-Urmi dialect: the area around the city of Khabarovsk (the Kur and Urmi rivers, and the Khabarovsk District of Khabarovsk Krai); probably not Nanai or even Southern Tungusic (see Kili language)

Northwest Bantu languages

Other than the H40 language Kongo, which is not frequently included, the numerically most important Northwest Bantu language is the zone-A Beti dialect cluster, consisting of Fang, Ewondo, Bulu, and other varieties spoken by two million people.

PC-LISP

Note that the Franz LISP dialect was the immediate, portable successor to the ITS version of Maclisp and is perhaps the closest thing to the LISP in the Steven Levy book Hackers as is practical to operate.

PL/I

A compiler developed at Cornell University for teaching a dialect called PL/C, had the unusual capability of never failing to compile any program, through the use of extensive automatic correction of many syntax errors and by converting any remaining syntax errors to output statements.

Potteries dialect

The 14th-century Anglo Saxon poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which appears in the Cotton Nero A.x manuscript uses dialect words native to the Potteries, leading some scholars to believe that it was written by a monk from Dieulacres Abbey.

Proto-Tai language

Pittayaporn's reconstruction of these sounds is based on irregular correspondences in differing modern Tai dialects among the sounds /kʰ/, /x/ and /h/, in particular in the Phuan language and the Kapong dialect of the Phu Thai language.

Rancho Cordova, California

Tyler Coppin - Well-known Australian/American actor, writer, and dialect coach.

Raskovnik

While razkovniche and raskovnik are the customary names in Bulgarian and Serbian respectively and the root is also preserved in the Leskovac dialect as raskov, in some parts of Macedonia it is known as ež trava ("hedgehog grass").

Religion in Tibet

Work on Bible translations into Tibetan resulted in a Bible in Tibetan script in 1948, but this specific dialect is now understood by very few Tibetans, so new works are in progress.

Seán

Sean is commonly pronounced Shawn (Seán), but in the northern parts of Ireland (owing to a northern dialect), it is pronounced "Shan", "Shen" or "Shayn" (Séan, with the accent on the e instead of the a), thus leading to the variant Shane.

Shuwa language

Shuwa (Shoobo), or Pianga (Pyaang), once considered a dialect of Bushong, is a Bantu language of Kasai-Oriental Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Simple public-key infrastructure

The most prominent general deployments of SPKI/SDSI are E-speak, a middleware product from HP that used SPKI/SDSI for access control of web methods, and UPnP Security, that uses an XML dialect of SPKI/SDSI for access control of web methods, delegation of rights among network participants, etc.

Sonqori dialect

Sonqori, also known as Sonqori Turkic, is an Iranian dialect of Azerbaijani spoken alongside Kurdish in Sonqor (Sunqur), east of Kermānšāh, in a large valley separated from the rest of Kurdistan.

South Malaita Island

The language spoken by the people of Small Malaita is the Sa'a dialect.

Šumadija–Vojvodina dialect

During the Great Serb Migration from 1690, many speakers of the dialect were settled in the Budapest region.

Thal Desert

The local language of Thal Desert is the Saraiki also known as Thalochi dialect of Saraiki Language.

Tortelli

The tortelli from the Apuan area (or "tordelli" in the local dialect), typical of Lucca, Versilia and Garfagnana however, have a semi-circular form and contain a filling of meat and herbs (first of all, thyme, or "peporino").

Warboys

The traditional dialect of Warboys recorded in the SED was characterised by a 'Canadian raising' type alternation in the vowel of the PRICE lexical set.

Yolŋu languages

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu A popular Australian singer who sings in the Gumatj dialect of the Yolngu language.

ǂ’Amkoe language

Sàsí dialect is spoken in eastern Botswana in and around Bodungwane, Dibeti, Mokganene, Poloka, and Lethajwe.


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