Essays on Dialect

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...

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...

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...

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...