Essays on Dialect

Referred to as ‘bundles’ of isoglosses, such as the well-known Benrather Linie that distinguishes High German from the other West Germanic languages. The use of isoglosses in German dialectology has been the source of much debate ever since it was first created, and the continued...

Amharic is one of the Ethio-Semitic languages, which belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic super family and is related to Hebrew, Arabic, and Syrian. Amharic, which is spoken mainly in Ethiopia, is the second most spoken Semitic language, after Arabic. It is spoken...

The three features of the Aberdeen dialect looked at in the course of this essay are all phonological. The first feature looks at the usage of glottalization in the recording. The second phonological feature looks at the rhoticity of the accent and how this is...

This section is concerned with different language identification methods. Language identification is the process of identifying the language of a speech or text of a document. Language differences are only part of the observed differences arising from speakers, uttered messages and environmental conditions. In the...

Different dialects are found all over the world, regardless of whether you are a new immigrant or a person who was born in the country of his/her nationality. America has many different accents. The United States is a country composed of many immigrants from all...

The German poet Christian Morgenstern once said that “all seagulls look as though their names were Emma.” Although Morgenstern was known for his nonsense poetry, there is some legitimacy in his suggestion that all names are befitting for the notions they stand for. Naming is...

Lezgi is one of the Northeastern Caucasian languages spoken by the Lezgins in southern Dagestan (Russia) and northern Azerbaijan. In Azerbaijan, Lezgi is regarded as a minority language while in Dagestan it has a status as a state language along with Russian and the other...

Even though both of these highly independent language formats seem incredibly similar at first glance, there are some small intricacies that dramatically separate the two from one another.  Though it’s easy to miss these intricacies, once you’ve absorbed them it’s all going to make perfect...

Accents are often considered to be an aspect of one’s self-identification. An individual’s vernacular variety can additionally be recognized as distinguishable from the typical standardization of the English language. John Edwards illustrates this concept of standard and non-standardization as a society “whose patterns of communication...