The average citizen speaks English, developed over centuries as an unplanned confluence of dozens of dialects.
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You discover the wealth of languages and dialects spoken in the region by locals and expats.
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India has five major religions, 15 languages, and more than 1, 500 minor languages and dialects.
Today it is less to do with the Walser dialect, which, like many dialects, is fading.
The regional language reflects Kenya's demographic blend, with Arabic touches mixed with African dialects.
Starting with just two language services, it now broadcasts in nine Asian languages and numerous dialects.
Today, there are nearly as many types of hot pot as there are regional dialects in China.
SecuraKey had been using four different microprocessors from four different companies that all had different dialects and tools.
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Despite being recorded in a mansion outside Paris, "Reminder's" musical dialects mostly come from this side of the Atlantic.
True, native speakers generally regard the seven to 13 mostly mutually unintelligible variants as dialects of a single language.
One firm in Switzerland has 16 different dialects on their trading floors.
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The people came to have diverse dialects because they could not communicate so well from one mountain to another.
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But with more than 140 languages and dialects spoken, you can make it a vacation to any destination you like.
In China, Microsoft's search engine Bing sounds like "illness" or "pancake" when spoken in local dialects, depending on the tone.
One of his shoes is stolen and the Cleveland, Ohio, native speaks none of the Chinese dialects, so nobody understands him.
Group travel is preferred in a country where a bewildering variety of cuisines, dialects and cultures can make independent travel daunting.
Worshipers of both churches chant in versions of ancient Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke, although the dialects would be mutually unintelligible.
The patterns also distinguish the five major spoken dialects of Hainan Island.
The scientist's concise description of a clever contraption must be translated into different dialects of legalese to satisfy national and international authorities.
However, as a fairly recent concession, Algerian television news has been broadcasting a daily edition in one of the three main Berber dialects.
His television channels challenged state broadcasters with lowbrow programmes in the Italian language that appealed to those groups most likely to speak regional dialects.
If we do it too many times and set too many precedents, the spontaneous yet accepted order of our language deteriorates and devolves into dialects.
By injecting Philippine dialects into English dialogue, and switching between the Philippines and the U.S., Nation takes a path familiar to other American immigrant dramas.
He seemed to know everyone and could talk to them in English or French, and was familiar with the range of curious dialects known as Swiss-German.
Its Voice of America radio broadcasts to Pakistan are hampered by obsolescent transmitters in Tajikistan and it has no TV broadcasts in Urdu or other native dialects.
In Maningrida, in Central Arnhem Land east of Darwin, 3, 000 indigenous residents speak seven completely different languages and about 22 distinctive dialects within a relatively small area.
"Tsotsi, " in Afrikaans as well as urban dialects, with English subtitles, was adapted from the only novel thus far by the great South African playwright Athol Fugard.
Language is a living thing and I understand its need to grow and develop in its environment, hence the creation of new languages and dialects with mixed origins.
He thinks the only antidote to hate radio is rival FM transmissions, run by locals who speak familiar dialects and cater to local interests, from farming to music.
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Increased mobility and the ubiquitousness of television and radio have done surprisingly little to homogenise the distinctive accents and dialects that characterise the different parts of the country.
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