The real mother tongue of Jesus was the Syrian dialectmixed with Hebrew, which was then spoken in Palestine.
But when his discontent began to affect the educated classes, men who had read Rousseau found in his works the dialect most fitted to express the growing indignation.
Each side reads admitted truths into its own dialect, and infers that its own dialectaffords the only valid expression.
Compare the narrative in the Swiss dialect given by Grimm, Deut.
Bright's hint, it occurred to me that this Hindoo's vulgar dialect might resemble the language of our Scottish Gipsies.
The dialect of the English Gipsies, though mixed with English, is tolerably pure, from the fact of its being intelligible to the race in the centre of Russia.
Single domestics would be under the necessity of learning the language of the master; and, having none speaking their own dialect to commune with, or only occasionally meeting such, momentarily, they would soon forget it.
I need not point out to you the difference between the cant language, or slang, used by thieves or flash men in general, and the peculiar dialect said to be spoken by the Gipsies.
There is little doubt, however, that it is a dialect of the Hindostanee, from the specimens produced by Grellmann, Hoyland, and others who have written on the subject.
The manners and dialect of other classes and sections of the country have received abundant illustration of late years.
He had the sharp eye of the satirist and the man of the world for oddities of dress, dialect and manners.
She could not commune in their native dialect with the sages of Rome and Athens.
There is a whole literature of these romans d' aventure in the Anglo-Norman dialect of French.
Some of these are Scotch and others English; the dialect of Lowland Scotland did not, in effect, differ much from that of Northumberland and Yorkshire, both descended alike from the old Northumbrian of Anglo-Saxon times.
Critics were not wanting who held that, in the matter of dialect {579} and manners and other details, the narrator was not true to the facts.
His education was English, and so was the dialect of his poem, although the {45} unique MS.
Hence the Macedonian dialect was full of Greek radical words.
Yet it cannot be doubted that the Greek had passed into the Illyrian dialect before the introduction of Athenian literature, and that their combination produced the mongrel language which was afterwards called Macedonian.
We cannot but suppose that they spoke a dialect very similar to the Greek, since otherwise they could not have had any considerable influence upon the latter people.
Lastly, the similarity of dialect is a decisive proof.
It was well that the Pomeranian dialect differed so widely from the Bavarian, so Malcolm's German had consequently passed muster without suspicion.
It may be said, however, that their language differs in some degree, but not more than the dialect of our Eastern States differs from that of the Southern.
Later, walks (a dialect form) was substituted for walketh, and still later the second person singular was replaced in ordinary use by the plural.
By 1350, however, the dialect of London and the vicinity had come, apparently, to be regarded as somewhat more elegant and polished than the others.
Every English writer had recourse to his local dialect, and one dialect was felt to be as good as another.
They had abandoned their native tongue, and spoke a dialect of French.
The point is, that what we now call “English” is, in most respects, the direct descendant of the London dialect of the fourteenth century.
All that was needed was the appearance of some writer of supreme genius to whom this dialect should be native.
He was a most accomplished linguist, speaking every dialect of the Korean-Manchurian borderland, besides having a good knowledge of Japanese, a smattering of Russian, and a certain command of pidgin English.
My speakee Yinkelis first-chop so-fashion," said the Chinaman, giving Bob some qualms as to the possibility of using this dialect of English as a means of communication.
This name in the Northern dialect is buta baom, and in the Central dialect is bitaka yalo djak, literally grizzly bear between the legs flew.
But it lies also in the fact that the preacher takes us over a familiar Scripture passage, verse by verse, phrase by phrase, and translates it into the dialect of present circumstances.
What do I want with the dialectof 'Christian experience'?
The secular songs of the villagers are not all in the peculiar dialect of the province.
The place of all others where such a dialect might be looked for is Phocæa, a little South of the Troad; for Phocæa was an Ionian city entirely surrounded on its land sides by Æolian territory.
They are among the best formed of the Indians, speak a dialect of the Bisayan, which they called Hiligueyna, but in the remoter parts another idiom named the Halayo prevails.
Their language may be called a dialect of the Tagalog, though rather harsher in sound, and neither so copious, so refined, nor so subjected to grammatical rules, as this latter idiom.
While engaged this morning in looking over a large exchange list of newspapers, a few stanzas of poetry in the Scottish dialect attracted our attention.
Most of his pieces were written in the dialect of his ancestors, which was well understood by his neighbors and friends, the only audience upon which he could venture to calculate.
It was a dialect capable of infinite gradations of tone, endless refinements of expression.
He preferred, as did Browning, who would have liked to reach the masses, a dialect of his own, and he used it increasingly after he was fifty.
The necessity of knowing at least superficially, something of the dialect and writings of Asia compelled the Egyptian scribes to study to some degree the literature of Phonecia and of Chaldæa.
Several names of arms borrowed from some Semitic dialect have been noticed in the texts of this period.
It has been thought that other documents, drawn up in a non-Semitic language and coming from Mitanni and Arzapi, contain a dialect of the Hittite speech or that language itself.
The Ural-Altaic dialectgave me less trouble than it would have given most Occidental people owing to its affinity with the Magyar language.
Her voice is peculiarly soft and, coupled with the dialect drawl, is pleasant to hear.
I had not heard the Southern dialect for so long not to be able to fall into it with little effort.
To be direct, it is the object of this article to show that dialect is not a thing to be despised in any event--that its origin is oftentimes of as royal caste as that of any speech.
This is the manifest work of the true dialect writer and expounder.
Equally with the perfect English, then, dialect should have full justice done it.
But had he allowed himself that free use of the Scottish dialect of which he was the supreme master, especially if he had shaped the subject into a lyrical drama, no one can say what he might not have achieved.
The truth is, when he used his own Scottish dialect he was unapproached, unapproachable; no poet before or since has evoked out of that instrument so perfect and so varied melodies.
