Nepal has considerable scope for exploiting its potential in hydropower and tourism, areas of recent foreign investment interest.
The young men from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as though eager to speak patoisfor the last time.
Katie, seeing that she could safely leave her charge there, spoke a few words in a strange patois of Cree and French to Pepin, and, calling Pierre, left the house.
Fortunately they could all speak the curious patois of English, French, and Cree that the enemy used, and therefore they had no need to be at a loss.
In some machinery works, he told me, three months ago only; but his patois prevented my understanding the details.
The Norman patois has “louquer,” which reminds one of the English to look.
The corresponding expression for trimbaler in the Berry patois is triquebaler.
Long residence in the country had, it is true, rendered the patois of that class of people whom they personated familiar to one, but the other spoke only the pure and native language of which it was a corruption.
In Mentone, not very long ago, old men might be seen who in their youth were said to have been taken captive by the Moors; and many Arabic words have found their way into the patois of the people.
I asked in French, but no gleam of understanding lightened their faces; and it was not until Joseph had addressed them in the most extraordinary patois I had ever heard, that they showed signs of intelligence.
This is strikingly shown by the number of words in the Nicaraguan patois which express such actions.
The foreign words are there so numerous that the country patois becomes nearly unintelligible to one acquainted only with the Spanish of the Academy.
It was the current tongue of the half-breeds, and to this day is the patois of the muleteers who carry on the sparse commerce of the interior mountainous regions.
Languages: English, patois English Literacy: definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 87.
Languages: French, Creole patois Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.
Bonjou', madame,' she said, in her patois of broken English and degenerate French.
A few words in the former patois seemed sufficient to convey them, and their answer was a cheer that made the walls ring.
In the south of France it is called, in the patois of Languedoc, babota.
They understand that the value of patois is its suggestiveness, and they go in its use just so far as is necessary to impart the flavor required, and there they stop.
As he spoke a patois Italian, and was as deaf as he was talkative, his attentions soon became embarrassing.
For the next few minutes a shower of patois filled the air, amidst which we penetrated a low door and found ourselves in a cave constructed by building a wall of stones against the lower side of the boulder where it overhung.
These worthy peasants seldom speak anything but a patois scarcely intelligible to their educated fellow-countrymen.
Hain't seed the scamp," said Oncle Jazon, only he used the patoismost familiar to the girl's ear.
They rigidly retain their own dialect, which they call the Riki-Riki, although they have acquired a Spanish patois in their dealing with the traders on the river.
She was wont to say through her stammering in her patois of a Barneville peasant, "I am so, I do my work, and the rest does not concern me.
But even in her savage Corsican patois the great lady knew no 'nasty words,' and when she had cried 'Coward!
In his insane fury he jumbled together indiscriminately the abusive patois of his native hillside, 'Ah la garso!
