Several of the dialects have been influenced by contact with non-Germanic linguistic groups, such as the dialect of Carinthia, where in the past many speakers were bilingual with Slovene, and the dialect of Vienna, which has been influenced by immigration during the Austro-Hungarian period, particularly from what is today the Czech Republic.

As a language of deaf education, ASL has been introduced to numerous countries, where it has often diverged into a separate dialect.

It is this fact that leads some scholars to believe that Beowulf has endured a long and complicated transmission through all the main dialect areas.

In addition, Bandanese speak a distinct Malay Dialect which has several features distinguishing it from Ambonese Malay, the better-known and more widespread dialect that forms a lingua franca in central and southeast Maluku.

Consequently very little research has been published regarding this dialect.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

The dialect of Ajaccio has been described as in transition.

A nonstandard dialect, like a standard dialect, has a complete vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, but is not the beneficiary of institutional support.

Modern Nationalism, as developed especially since the French Revolution, has made the distinction between " language " and " dialect " an issue of great political importance.

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

The Bornholmian dialect has also maintained to this day many ancient features, such as a distinction between three grammatical genders, which the central Insular Danish dialects gave up during the 20th century.

Northern Russian with its ancient variation, Old Novgorod dialect, has many original and archaic features.

Traditions which assert that he was blind may have arisen from the meaning of the word in both Ionic, where the verbal form ( homēreúō ) has the specialized meaning of " guide the blind ", and the Aeolian dialect of Cyme, where ( hómēros ) is synonymous with the standard Greek ( tuphlós ), meaning ' blind '.

Italy has always had a distinctive dialect for each city, since the cities, until recently, were thought of as city-states.

Italian is the second most spoken language in Argentina after the official language of Spanish, with 1. 5 million speaking it natively and Italian has also heavily influenced the dialect of Spanish spoken in Argentina and Uruguay, Rioplatense Spanish.

The distinction between dialect and language has been made by scholars ( such as Francesco Bruni ): on the one hand are the languages that made up the Italian koine ; and on the other, those that had little or no part in it, such as Albanian, Greek, German, Ladin, and Occitan, which some minorities still speak.

The Maltese language has historically been classified in various ways, with some claiming that the ancient Punic language was the base of the language, instead of Siculo-Arabic, while others believed the language to be Berber, and under Fascist Italy, it was considered a dialect of Italian.

For instance, in a Lisp dialect that has < CODE > cond </ CODE > but lacks < CODE > if </ CODE >, it is possible to define the latter in terms of the former using macros.

There is also a dialect of French centred mainly on the Port au Port Peninsula on the west coast of the island which has had an impact on the syntax of English in the area.

Newfoundland English dialects are steadily losing their distinctiveness through the action of the mass media and an education system that has traditionally regarded the dialect as a backward corruption of " proper " English.

In other words, the dialect has fallen victim to notions of " progress ".

Imperial Aramaic was highly standardised ; its orthography was based more on historical roots than any spoken dialect and was inevitably influenced by Old Persian.

Suggested possible roots are the Arabic word tehama (" hot low-lands "), the Spanish word tejamanil ( shingle ), or " high water " in the dialect of local Native Americans.

New Zealand Sign Language has its roots in British Sign Language ( BSL ), and may be technically considered a dialect of British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language ( BANZSL ).

They speak a dialect which is located in the transition between Østnorsk and west Norwegian, a goal that has deep roots in ancient Norwegian.

The Romance languages are all derivative of Latin, a member of this Indo-European language subfamily, which was the common language of the Western Roman Empire that had its roots in Italic dialect spoken in and around the capital, Rome, until the empire collapsed in the 5th century CE.

This way the first dialect of Standard German with definite High German roots but a Low German substratum apparently formed.

In 1857, there were 418, 824 people of Samogitian roots and 444, 921 persons declared the Samogitian dialect as their mother tongue in 1897 in Kovno Governorate.

Many of their mostly self-penned songs reflected their roots, using Lancashire dialect, with references to the mining and weaving trades, the mills and factories, and the Lancashire characters who lived in the area.

New Zealand Sign Language has its roots in British Sign Language ( BSL ), and may be technically considered a dialect of British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language ( BANZSL ).

The most popular hypothesis on the origin of Griko is the one by Gerhard Rohlfs and Georgios Hatzidakis, stating that Griko's roots go as far back in history as the time of the ancient Greek colonisation of Southern Italy and Sicily in the 8th century BC, and in that respect, this Southern Italian dialect is considered to be the last living trace of the Greek elements that once formed Magna Graecia.

In 2008, moreover, a gene linked to a virulent form of breast cancer that is typically found only in Jewish women was discovered in a cluster of Hispanic Catholic women in Southern Colorado, many of whom trace their family's roots to northern New Mexico Curiously, a Spanish dialect, so-called " Mountain Spanish ", that is spoken by many of the old families of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado — and chiefly only among themselves — appears to be Ladino or Judezmo, a hybrid language of Old Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew with sprinklings of Arabic, Greek and other languages, depending on the geographic region of the speakers or their ancestors.

This Amharic dialect is described by Marcel Cohen ( 1939 ) as featuring a fair number of words derived from Amharic roots but twisted in sound or meaning in order to confuse outsiders, making it a sort of argot ; in addition to these, it had a small number of Cushitic loanwords not found in standard Amharic, and a large number of Arabic loanwords mainly related to Islam.

Barnes lamented the " needless inbringing " of foreign words ; instead using native words from his own dialect and coining new ones based on Old English roots.

After the Warsaw Uprising, when the majority of its speakers were either killed or expelled and resettled in other parts of the world, the dialect became separated from its geographical roots and its users dispersed.

At the same time, epic poetry was written in a mixed language, a dialect of Italian based on French: hybrid words exhibited a treatment of sounds according to the rules of both languages, had French roots with Italian endings, and were pronounced according to Italian or Latin rules.

Swedish linguists reserve the term " dialect " for rural dialects with roots that can be traced back to Old Swedish.

An exception is the island of Gotland ( 50 000 people ) has its own dialect with roots in Old Gutnish.

Its Bavarian roots show in the local German dialect, Innviertlerisch, a Western Central Austro-Bavarian variant similar to the languages spoken in adjacent Lower Bavaria.

Although the dialect has its roots mainly in Polish ( phonology and morphology are consistently shared with Polish ), the diachronic development of the dialect is that of a transitional nature.

There are several subcategories of Rauma dialect, which have subtle differences and have their roots in neighbouring communities.