Ethnographers are entranced by a distinct dialect that continues to contain words from ancient Dorian Greek.
The gamboo'a a Gulf dialect word that conflates the Arabic words for "cone" and "hat" and the beehive.
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Cultivate the hard g's of the Gazan dialect if you don't want to sound girlish.
The jokes are funnier in dialect too, with a host of rude plays on words.
Today it is less to do with the Walser dialect, which, like many dialects, is fading.
The culture, even down to the dialect spoken, was created and designed by and for men.
There even seems to be a European-English dialect evolving that is well accepted and understood.
Hong Kong's 6.3 million people are 95% Chinese, the majority speakers of the Cantonese dialect.
The picnickers nearest to the statue itself, for instance, speak mostly Ilocano, a dialect from northern Luzon.
Amish are defined as using a horse and buggy, worshipping in their homes and speaking a German dialect.
Two local cinemas occasionally show Filipino movies, and Jollibee was filled with youthful dinners speaking the country's dialect.
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He wears his origins unselfconsciously, using local dialect proudly, as on Maudy Bum, south Yorkshire for moody person.
Vatsaloo picked up Srithap's Thai-Laotian dialect, and accompanied him back to his village--in those days, a three-day trip.
Kroll), and the Macedonian soldiers greeted Eumenes in the Macedonian dialect when he came to command them (Plu.
His actors are little known or unknown, and the dialogue is delivered wholly in a dialect of Mayan.
Her assessment was that although Columbus wrote in Spanish (the majority Spanish dialect), it was not his first language.
"There are dialect grammars and there are also grammars for texting, " he said.
To put the question differently: if the native language of the Macedonians is Greek, what is its Macedonian dialect?
So specialized has TVBI become in Taiwan that its TVBS Evening News broadcasts partly in the local dialect, Fujianese.
The buyers and sellers take their jobs seriously, shouting to one another in the local dialect of Afaan Oromo.
Still, it is striking how many Italians continue to speak dialect 150 years after the creation of their state.
Both its food and its dialect are evidence of a strong sense of individuality that lives on to this day.
Mr Benkirane speaks the street dialect of his people rather than the formal Arabic that many Moroccans struggle to grasp.
That is, the Attic dialect could hardly be native, and its use is likely part of the process of Hellenization.
The large numbers of blacks in jails, who often speak an impenetrable street dialect, provides an easy excuse for hatred.
They live in a scattering of villages in Switzerland, Austria and northern Italy, and some still speak the Walser German dialect.
Mr McKellar, who is a second generation Scot, said Corby was influenced by Scottish culture, dialect, food and places of worship.
The old man turned toward him suddenly and spoke rapidly and furiously in a dialect that Robert Jordan could just follow.
She told him that he had a great dialect, and she did some small talking to them to get them calm.
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