The small Siouan tribes of the Carolinas, reduced to fragments by repeated Iroquois raids, combined with their Siouan kinsmen the Catawbas, who consequently in 1743 included twenty dialects among their little band.
The distribution of the Bantu dialects over so wide a region in Central Africa and with such slight divergences presupposes narrow limits both of space and time for their origin, and a short period since their dispersal.
Icelandic and the kindred dialects of the Shetland and Faroe Islands had their origin in the classic Norse of the ninth century, and are divergent forms of the speech of the Viking explorers.
This is the explanation of multiplication of dialectsamong savage tribes.
The wide, varied area occupied by the Germanic tribes of Europe permitted the evolution of the many dialects which finally made the richness of modern German speech.
For example, with regard to the Australian aborigines it has been noted that "the dialectschange with almost every tribe.
A sanguine scholar may, perhaps, hope that an investigation of the present dialects of the two Herodotean localities may reward the minute analyst with some Pelasgic glosses.
The tables of Hodgson show the affinity of the Rajmahali with the Kol, Bhumij, and the true Khond dialects of Orissa; as well as with the Goandi of Central India.
Sub-dialects numerous, according to Rosen one for almost every valley.
The language, as far as the imperfect vocabularies have allowed me to examine it, has fewer affinities with the southern dialects of Australia than even the known amount of dissimilarity between fundamentally allied languages prepares us for.
Conterminous with the Northern Mingrelian dialects of the Georgian, and the Absné dialect of the Circassian.
That the languages represented by the western dialects of the Georgian had some extension beyond their present frontier--possibly as far as Bithynia.
Here, then, it is, where the two divisions of the Eskimo dialects meet.
Besides the Manipur proper, the following eleven dialects are illustrated by his vocabularies,[17] and are said to be spoken within the limits of a very inconsiderable circle, of which Manipur is the centre.
All the numerous Philippine dialects and languages are fundamentally Malay.
Marquesas, it is said, that the difference of dialects for the different islands is scarcely consistent with a population from the Paumoto group exclusively.
Dialects of Insterburg and Nadrau in Prussia, and the Shamaitic dialect in Polish Lithuania.
It is probable that the people of Lake Tanganyika and Nyassa, and those on the Rivers Shiré and Zambesi, are all of one stock, for the dialects vary very little.
The Chipéta have many lines of marking: they are all only divisions of the great Manganja tribe, and their dialects differ very slightly from that spoken by the same people on the Shiré.
All who could write understood perfectly the better Latin from which these popular dialects were slowly differentiating themselves.
Thenceforward there was to be a difference between the people who lived in countries where Romance dialects had emerged from the spoken Latin and prevailed, and those people who spoke a Teuton speech.
So it was in the Christian parts of Spain, in Gaul, and, above all, in Italy, where the vulgar dialects were tardiest in taking distinctive form.
But in Romance countries there was no such absolute difference between the vernacular and the Latin, and the analytic genius of the growing Romance dialects did not fail to affect the latter.
Romance dialects spoken in the Middle Ages from the Alps to the Pyrenees--the tongue of the troubadours, often used as synonymous with Provencal, one of its chief branches.
He was kind and benevolent, a good old Church of England Christian, was well versed in several dialects of the Celtic, and possessed an astonishing deal of Welsh heraldic and antiquarian lore.
In every country where they live they have dialects of their own choosing and making, and the stranger who goes among them must learn to speak these before he can associate with them on terms of intimacy.
I have never been able to learn it well, but it is a mixture of Rom and tramp dialects with a dash of English slang.
With Junipero Serra at the helm, the good priests learned some of the Aztec dialects in order to convert the savages.
With the exception of the wilds of Yezo, peopled by eighteen thousand Ainos, the Japanese islands are inhabited by a single race speaking various dialects of the same tongue.
It is spoken by nearly two-thirds as many persons as are all other Celtic dialects combined.
In Brazil and other parts of South America the preponderance of importations was from the negroid stock of the equator, whose dialects and physical traits are allied to those of the Kaffirs and Zulus of the east coast (Bantus).
Their language differs little from the Dutch; but the dialects throughout the country are very numerous.
Its dialects show traces of the mixture of nationalities, but the Tuscan has now become classic, for the great writers, like Dante and Boccassio were Tuscans.
Hindi and Hindustani are the most widely spread modern languages or group of dialects of India.
In many parts of Germany, where German now prevails, Slavic dialects were spoken down to recent times, and in some places are not yet quite extinct.
During this period of colonization we notice the origin of the four principal dialects in the Greek language.
The dialects of the two settlements would contain many words in common, but neither of them would be a Chinese dialect on that account.
But in the ninth century the differences between the two dialects were probably far greater.
So far as these permutations are concerned, Sanscrit, Greek, and Latin may be regarded as most nearly resembling the primitive Aryan speech, and with them the Celtic dialects mainly agree.
The language which they took with them to their new settlements beyond the Himalayas was the Sanskrit, which still remains to this day the nearest of all dialects that we now possess to the primitive Aryan speech.
His General Grammar of all the Teutonic Dialects from Iceland to England has proved the equality of these tongues with their ancient classical oppressors.
Beechey counted eleven different dialects in the mission of San Carlos.
The Kaviaks intermingle to a considerable extent with the Malemutes, and the two are often taken for one people; but their dialects are quite distinct.
East of the latter live the Towkas and Cookras, who extend to Blewfields, and speak dialects varying little from the Woolwa tongue, but stand lower in the scale of humanity.
These tribes differ but little in physical peculiarities, or manners and customs, but by their numerous dialects they have been classed in nations.
The question cannot be put off, for it will brood upon him in his daily devotions and labours; a doubt as to the justice of his cause will paralyse all his exertions.
It decided for the courts of the South and East, taught them organization, and carried their dialects with it through the Island which it gradually recovered for civilization.
What we know, then, of Britain when it was re-civilized we know through Latin terms or through the half-German dialects which ultimately and much later merge into what we call Anglo-Saxon.
The other petty kings and courts speak various "Teutonic" dialects, that is, dialects made up of a jargon of original German words and Latin words mixed.
The population of the little settlements under these eastern knights spoke, apparently, for the most part the same dialects as their courts.
It is a question whether Germanic dialects had not been known in eastern Britain long before the departure of the Roman legions.
That the Teutonic dialects of the eastern kinglets should spread westward might have seemed impossible.
And side by side with this ruin came the replacing of the Roman official language by a welter of Celtic and of half-German dialects in a mass of little courts.
Even so the spread westward of a letterless and starved set of dialects from the little courts of the eastern coasts (from Canterbury and Bamborough and so forth) would have been impossible but for a tremendous accident.
What advanced was the Roman organization once more and, with it, the dialects of the courts it favored.
Not being acquainted with the dialects of the Aryan nations previous to their separation, I would not pretend to impugn the grand discovery of Mr. Lopez.
The Quichua contains also many words that seem closely allied to thedialects spoken by the nations inhabiting the regions called today Central America and the Maya tongue.
Then we tried a relay system of dialectswhich established a vague, syncopated kind of intellectual contact.
At the present period the number, it is said, would be still greater if all the distinct dialects of those mountains were reckoned.
Members of this nomad tribe, which permeates the length of the Indian peninsula, through countries where many languages and dialects are spoken, are likely to be known by different names in different localities, and this is the case.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dialects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
