The novel was written in northern dialect.

这部小说是以北方方言写成的。

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"Da" is a pervasive kinship term in the northern dialect.

在北方方言区里，“大”或“大大”曾经是一个普遍的亲属称谓。

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Dialect from JiLin province belongs to the northern dialect area.

吉林话属于北方方言区。

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The northern most settlements on that coast spoke Greek with an Aeolian dialect; the Aeolian dialect is the one that you see on the mainland in places like Boeotia for instance Thebes and so on.

在北部,大多沿海移民,都说伊奥利亚方言,伊奥利亚方言,在内陆,例如皮奥夏和底比斯,等地较为普及

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After the 15th century, Scots diverged sharply from northern English dialect.

ECONOMIST: Scots English

The picnickers nearest to the statue itself, for instance, speak mostly Ilocano, a dialect from northern Luzon.

ECONOMIST: Out of misery, some extraordinary lessons

They live in a scattering of villages in Switzerland, Austria and northern Italy, and some still speak the Walser German dialect.

BBC: Hiking the Alpine Walserweg trail