6 sentences with 'dialect'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dialect and other words derived from it.
• « This region was called Ionia, and its Greek inhabitants spoke a dialect of Greek called Ionian. »
• « Written in his own native dialect, the Tuscan of the city of Florence, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into hell, guided by the spirit of the classical Roman poet Virgil. Dante and Virgil emerge on the other side of the earth, with Dante ascending the mountain of purgatory and finally entering heaven, where he enters the divine presence. »
• « Spain became almost a smaller version of the Holy Roman Empire, with the Spanish king directly ruling only the central territory of Castile (it was the Castilian dialect, centred in Madrid, that became the official Spanish language). »
• « For the first time, large numbers of people acquired at least a basic knowledge of the official language of their state, rather than using only their local dialect. These official languages allowed the transmission of ideas across entire kingdoms. »
• « For example, "French" was originally only the language spoken in the Paris city area, just as "Spanish" was only the dialect spoken in the Madrid area. »
• « Despite the popularity of the concept of nationalism among members of the small middle class in northern Italy, it had relatively little mass support (and less than 3% of the population was literate in the standard 'Italian' language, the dialect spoken in the Tuscany region). »