Examples of using Dialect continuum in English and their translations into Portuguese
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In the center of this dialect continuum lies Satawalese.
Tofa is most-closely related to the Tuvan language and forms a dialect continuum with it.
It has been described as a dialect continuum that also includes Waale and Birifor.
All South Slavic languages form a dialect continuum.
Therefore, the dialect continuum is incomplete, with many varieties absent.
Kajtak(Kaytak) is a language from the Dargin dialect continuum spoken in Dagestan, Russia.
However, as the dialect continuum shades towards Mayennais, there is a less clear isogloss.
Speakers of Akha live in remote mountainous areas where it has developed into a wide-ranging dialect continuum.
Jola or Diola is a dialect continuum spoken in Senegal, the Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau.
This is taken as evidence of a formerly wide-ranging Iranian-language dialect continuum on the Central Asian steppe.
Ede is a dialect continuum of Benin and Togo that is closely related to the Yoruba language.
However, both Low Saxon and Limburgish spread across the Dutch-German border andbelong to a common Dutch-German dialect continuum.
Hindi is a language or a dialect continuum of languages, the Indian subcontinent, and is spoken mainly in northern and central India.
It exists in differing degrees among many related or geographically proximate languages of the world,often in the context of a dialect continuum.
As an Oïl language,Gallo forms part of a dialect continuum which includes Norman, Picard and the Poitevin dialect, among others.
These languages are closely related, however, andsome classifications identify a Bamileke dialect continuum with seventeen or more dialects. .
The Tampuan spoken in the larger region forms a dialect continuum with Western Tampuan at the south-west extreme and Eastern Tampuan found in the north-east.
Grammar==Libyan Arabic shares the feature of the first person singular initial n- with the rest of the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum to which it belongs.
Chippewa is part of the dialect continuum of Ojibwe(including Chippewa, Ottawa, Algonquin, and Oji-Cree), which is closely related to Potawatomi.
The more detailed standard ISO 639-3 uses the name"Persian"(code fas) for the dialect continuum spoken across Iran and Afghanistan.
Kanuri/kəˈnuːri/ is a dialect continuum spoken by some four million people, as of 1987, in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as small minorities in southern Libya and by a diaspora in Sudan.
Williamson and Blench(2000) note that in many cases it is difficult to draw clear lines between the branches of Volta-Congo andsuggest that this might indicate the diversification of a dialect continuum rather than a clear separation of families.
Algerian Arabic is part of the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum, and fades into Moroccan Arabic and Tunisian Arabic along the respective borders.
The Scythian languages may have formed a dialect continuum: Alanian languages or Scytho-Sarmatian in the west: were spoken by people originally of Iranian stock from the 8th and 7th century BC onwards in the area of Ukraine, Southern Russia and Kazakhstan.
Forming a part of the Western Romance dialect continuum, Monégasque shares many features with the Genoese dialect. .
Parts of the Sami language area form a dialect continuum in which the neighbouring languages may be mutually intelligible to a fair degree, but two more widely separated groups will not understand each other's speech.
There is no single standardization of the language as it exists as a dialect continuum, according to Nichols:"It exists as a chain of interconnected local varieties, conventionally called dialects.
There is no single standardization of the language as it exists as a dialect continuum:“It exists as a chain of interconnected local varieties, conventionally called dialects.” Some varieties differ greatly and can be so diverse that speakers of two different varieties cannot understand each other.
Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are thus from a linguistic perspective more accurately described as a dialect continuum of Scandinavian(North Germanic), and some of the dialects, such as those on the border between Norway and Sweden- especially parts of Bohuslän, Dalsland, western Värmland, western Dalarna, Härjedalen and Jämtland- take up a middle ground between the national standard languages.
Countries such as the Philippines, Jamaica, andNigeria also have millions of native speakers of dialect continua ranging from an English-based creole to a more standard version of English.