Sentences with phrase «dialects spoken»

The Senate urged these institutions to issue clear statements in all the dialects spoken in Nigeria about the dangers of storing value with cryptocurrency.

Notice a collision of cultures, hear a few of Indonesia's 300 dialects spoken, and sniff the...

There are over 580 different languages and dialects spoken in Indonesia — some say there could be as many as 1,200 dialects.

You'll hear more than 140 languages and dialects spoken on the streets in this «City of Neighborhoods.»

Each of these Islands are very unique for their beauty and even local dialects spoken.

(In fact, Mandarin could only be taught as a foreign language since it is only one of the many dialects spoken in China and is rarely the native tongue of Chinese immigrants to the U.S.) But these programs do not fit the theoretical model of bilingual education since the children learn to read and write first in English and the Mandarin is only a small part of their instruction.

Kurdish (Kurdish: Kurdî or کوردی) is a collection of related dialects spoken by the Kurds.

We tell you the age at which the person arrived in the US, Canada, Australia etc., languages and dialects spoken, and hobbies to help you pinpoint the perfect match.

He says «The fact proves first of all, that not one of the scores of dialects spoken by India in the first century has been found fit to be raised to the dignity of a sacred language in which the message of the Gospel could be expressed with dignity and aptitude; it proves also that the Indian Christians were satisfied for the upkeep of their spiritual life with the use of a language which their esteemed migrants had made familiar to them.»

(The Wycliffe Bible Translators / Summer Institute of Linguistics has since translated the New Testament into the dialect spoken there.)

I pointed to African American Vernacular English, a dialect spoken by some black people, as a similar example.

For this purpose, it's no wonder that its name, «Kupuri», actually means «soul» in Huichol the dialect spoken by he indigenous people of Nayarit, Mexico.

The Equity Working Group is also known as the Effort Sharing Working Group, a complication of language that's perhaps a bit confusing to people unfamiliar with the dialect spoken inside the conference halls.

Not exact matches

The company's employees speak about 12 different languages, «but other than that, we leave the language specialties to professional linguists who offer over 180 different dialects of services from over 4,000 linguists globally,» says Buckstein.

A developer who «speaks XML» can look at a document written in an unfamiliar XML dialect and still understand what it's trying to say.

Petersen travels to China and Japan several times per year to source products; the problem is, no one on her four - person staff speaks or reads Japanese or any Chinese dialect.

THERE is an increasing interest in the fascinating foods of the great sub-continent of India, where almost half a billion people speak over a dozen major languages which are localised by more than 1500 dialects.

According to its website, over 140 languages and dialects can be heard in the city, with a third of its population speaking a language other than English or French at home.

It even has its own dialect that was spoken by first generation German settlers called Texas German.

In our age, in which we have lost the significance of the mystery in sign, let alone the limited signification of truth in any particular sign, it is not amiss in the poet, when he is confronted by inquisitive theorists and urged to pronounce upon the nature of his peculiar calling» the rescue of sign» to speak directly for that labor Eliot calls the purification of the dialect of the tribe.

Barbour, who was the first black graduate of predominantly white Crozer Seminary, knew the white mind - set and spoke the white dialect.

She was eventually released, when an intern realized she was using an archaic dialect of the language his parents, or grandparents spoke.

Her «mental illness», was an inability to speak, read, or write, any language but her obscure native (East European) dialect.

The variety of voices is heightened by the different dialogue styles Paton uses: the lyric, almost biblical way he renders the Zulu dialect; the cliché - ridden language of the commercially oriented, English - speaking community; the chanting rhythms and repetition of the native «chorus»; the clear, logical, terse style of the educated black priest who helps Kumalo find Absalom; the cynical, humorous tone of chapter 23, a satire on justice.

«And hence, in the second place, I concluded as assuredly that, in the obscurer places of that Testament (which are very many), the best and most natural method of searching out the sense is, to inquire how, and in what sense, those phrases and manners of speech were understood, according to the vulgar and common dialect and opinion of that nation; and how they took them, by whom they were spoken, and by whom they were heard.

In fact, most of the time Schweitzer could not communicate directly with them at all; since he did not speak any of the half - dozen dialects around Lambaréné What is a theologian to do when he can not speak?

Even if someone speaking Jamaican or Indian English says the same thing, sorry, still a chair in my dialect.

by the way, in either the book of Jasher or Jubilees, it says that animals spoke the same dialect and could communicate with humans.

On a more mundane level, we know that Jesus spoke Aramaic (the spoken dialect of biblical Hebrew), since fragments of his speech are embedded in the Greek Gospels (see Mark 5:41; 15:34), while St. Paul proclaimed that same evangel to the world in Greek, though he seems to have been equally at home in Hebrew.

You have to speak a special dialect of Chritianeese, pray in a certain way, raise your hands during certain types of praise songs, etc..

About six million of the people of Iran are Turks, including all of the people of Iranian Azerbaijan who speak a Turkish dialect of their own.

The Han Muslims speak Mandarin and local dialects.

In Sinkiang they speak Turkish and most of them can also speak the Kansu dialect.

In education, Muslim children started speaking Han dialects and reading Chinese books.

They began to modify the old scholastic system in the madrasas and sought to bring the some twenty - six different dialects of Turkish closer to the language as it is spoken in Istanbul, where it is used in its most refined and articulate form.

Thus Indonesia, which consists of more than 17,000 islands, more than 350 spoken languages, dialects and groupings, succeeded in becoming one nation, speaking in one national language, and maintaining national unity.

'' For Christians are not differentiated from other people by country, language, or customs; you see, they do not live in cities of their own, or speak some strange dialect, or have some peculiar lifestyle.

He could speak Swahili in three dialects by early adolescence.

ELK POINT, SD — It would probably not be accurate to say Professor Mindy Brashears speaks with a Texas twang or that ABC's attorney Dane Butswinkas has a Richmond dialect, but the difficulty the two have understanding each other slowed proceedings on the fourth day of the $ 1.9 billion civil defamation trial against the network.

Speaking in the Twi dialect, Nkawiepenhene said, Mr. Ibrahim Mahama, was a genuine businessman who they know and has shown enough capacity to work.

«Per the status - quo it appears that one who speaks in Twi or any local language is considered an illiterate which is wrong, so much so that the dominance English play over Akan language has negatively affected the fluency of many Ghanaians in the speaking of their local dialect» he noted.

More than 120 tenants showed up to the new public hearing Tuesday morning at the DHCR office at 25 Beaver St., but the meeting was postponed because a translator had not been provided for those who speak Fujianese, a Chinese dialect.

And that doesn't even begin to capture the huge amounts of dialects (and local languages when there were ethnic minorities) that were spoken (or still are) before countries heavily promoted their official languages.

Chin, a community organizer and immigrant advocate who speaks three Chinese dialects, is expected to become the first Chinese - American to represent Chinatown in city council.

Local settled groups that speak a similar dialect report that the tribe faces food shortages, according to Peruvian news reports.

Every country has its own sign language with various dialects, which are based on different rules than the spoken language.

The Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 language varieties (both languages and dialects) is today spoken by about 220 million people, mostly in southern and central India but also in surrounding countries.

But if those don't contain enough samples of a particular accent or dialect, the voice assistants will struggle to understand people who speak that way.

Chimpanzees speak in dialects, invent odd grooming styles, and drum better than most kids in marching bands.

They «speak» dialects — in both cases a high - pitched screech — that are so distinct from each other that even harbor seals seem to know the difference.