Bengali cinema's reliance on authentic dialects is waning, with many films now reducing regional speech to mere markers for domestic workers. Directors and actors once treated dialect as a core ...

Students studying for exams, competing against each other in areas involving language, and in general, should learn to distinguish between a language and its dialects. While the words are frequently ...

The ability of children to speak any two dialects -- two closely related varieties of the same language -- may confer the same cognitive advantages as those reported for multilingual children who ...

SCRANTON — Jeet yet? No. D’joo? Longtime residents of Northeast Pennsylvania likely would readily understand hearing that coal-region-speak as: Did you eat yet? No. Did you? Likewise, they would know ...

When was the last time you heard such expressions as “Oh, Law,” or “You-uns have a nice day”? And if you’re lucky enough to encounter one of these turns of phrase, once common here in the Western ...

Despite its relatively small land area, Italy houses a plethora of dialects, many of which are different enough from each other and from the official Italian language to be considered separate ...

A dialect is a particular form of language limited to a specific region or social group. Linguists are fascinated by dialects because they reveal social classes, patterns of immigration and how groups ...

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 115, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1995), pp. 33-51 (19 pages) During a recent visit to Iraqi Kurdistan I recorded texts in the Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects of ...