Dialects oor Xhosa

Dialects

Vertalings in die woordeboek Engels - Xhosa

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dialects

/ˈdaɪ.əˌlɛkts/ naamwoord

Plural form of dialect.

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In Macedonia, there are many Roma who speak Macedonian but whose mother tongue is an oral Romany language that is a mixture of several Romany dialects.
EMakedoni, kukho amaRoma amaninzi athetha isiMakedoni kodwa ulwimi lwabo lweenkobe isisiRomany esixutywe neelwimi ezithethwa apho.

13 The conscience can also be shaped by the general culture or environment in which one lives, just as one’s environment may lead someone to speak with an accent or in a dialect.
13 Izazela zethu zinokuchatshazelwa nayindlela yokwenza izinto okanye imeko-bume umntu ahlala kuyo, kanye njengokuba indawo okuyo inokuchaphazela indlela othetha ngayo okanye ukubetha kolwimi lwakho.

There are 42 languages and many more dialects spoken in Angola.
Kukho iilwimi ezingama-42 neziyelelane ezininzi ezithethwa eAngola.

The Greek Scriptures were translated into a southern Estonian dialect as early as 1686 and into the northern dialect in 1715.
Izibhalo zesiGrike zaguqulelwa kwisiEstonia esithethwa emazantsi emva phaya ngowe-1686 yaza kamva yaguqulelwa kwesangasentla ngowe-1715.

To the west of Nigeria lies the country of Benin (formerly known as Dahomey), with a population divided into 60 ethnic groups speaking some 50 languages and dialects.
Ngakwintshona yeNigeria kukho ilizwe laseBenin (elalisakwaziwa ngokuba yiDahomey), elinabemi abahlukahlukene bazizizwana ezingama-60 ezithetha iilwimi ezingama-50.

It appears to be related to the language of Canaan in Abraham’s time, and from their Hebraic branch, the Canaanites formed various dialects.
Kubonakala ukuba sihlobene nolwimi olwaluthethwa eKanan ngexesha lika-Abraham, yaye ukususela kwintetho yawo yesiHebhere, amaKanan ayila iilwimi ezahlukahlukeneyo zezizwana.

Speaking to the islanders, though, can be a challenge because they have developed a distinct dialect that can be difficult for mainlanders to understand.
Kulucelomngeni ukuthetha nabantu abahlala esiqithini kuba bathetha olwabo ulwimi olungaqondwa kakuhle ngabantu abangahlali apho.

When we visited these gentle people, they were astonished to find us at their door, speaking in their dialect!
Ukufika kwethu kwindawo abahlala kuyo, bothuka bakusiva sithetha ulwimi lwabo.

Syriac is one of the dialects of Aramaic, an official language of the Persian Empire.
Ulwimi lwaseSiriya lolokuqala ukubakho phantsi koBukhosi bamaPersi.

In India, for example, there are 14 principal languages and perhaps 1,000 minor languages and dialects.
Ngokomzekelo, eIndiya, kukho iilwimi eziphambili ezili-14 mhlawumbi neelwimi ezincinane nezezizwana ezili-1 000.

There are also many variants, or dialects.
Kwakhona ulwimi lwabo lunamagama amaninzi onokuwasebenzisa kwizinto ezahlukahlukeneyo, okanye ulwimi lwengingqi.

Then there are the many dialects of some of the languages.
Kanti ezinye iilwimi zineziyelelane ezininzi.

So I learned a little Chinese in two of the most used dialects.
Ngoko ndafunda kancinane isiTshayina ngokusebenzisa iilwimi zezizwana ezibini zelo lizwe ezazisetyenziswa rhoqo.

Watch Tower publications are translated here into Chinese, which, in its many dialects, is spoken by more than a billion people.
Apha iimpapasho zeWatch Tower ziguqulelwa kwisiTshayina, lwimi olo oluthethwa ngabantu abangaphezu kwewaka lezigidi nangona luneelwimi ezininzi zezizwana.

Although the pioneers knew Cantonese, they had to learn another dialect, since the main Chinese dialect used in Manila is Fujian.
Nangona aba vulindlela babelwazi ulwimi lwesiCanton, kwafuneka bafunde esinye isiyelelane, ekubeni isiTshayina esisetyenziswa eManila isisiFujian.

This posed a challenge because throughout the Philippines, close to 90 languages and dialects were spoken.
Oku kwaba lucelomngeni kuba kuzo zonke iiPhilippines, zazimalunga nama-90 iilwimi neziyelelane ezazithethwa apho.

Although English is fine for some, consideration always needs to be given to the other common languages and dialects in the Philippines.
Nangona abanye babesiqonda isiNgesi, kwafuneka kucingelwe nabanye ababethetha iilwimi neziyelelane ezisetyenziswa kwiiPhilippines.

Their mother tongue was either a Galilean dialect of Aramaic or a dialectal form of Hebrew.
Ulwimi olwaluthethwa kwamakwabo kusenokwenzeka ukuba yayilulwimi lwesizwana saseGalili lwesiAramiki okanye isiHebhere esikwanjalo.

Later on, however, languages and dialects of the Slavonic, or Slavic, family came into common use in the eastern parts of Europe.
Noko ke, iilwimi neziyelelane zesiSlavonic okanye isiSlavic, zaya zisetyenziswa ngumntu wonke kwimimandla ekwimpuma Yurophu.

Consequently, the Georgia branch decided to translate some publications into Svan and Mingrelian, two languages so closely related to Georgian that some consider them to be dialects.
Ngenxa yoko, isebe laseGeorgia lagqiba kwelokuba liguqulele iincwadi ngeSvan nesiMingrelia, iilwimi ezimbini ezisondele kakhulu kwisiGeorgia kangangokuba abanye abantu bathi zilwimi zasekuhlaleni.

The Coptic language was spoken in Egypt in the centuries immediately following Jesus’ earthly ministry, and the Sahidic dialect was an early literary form of the language.
IsiCopt sasithethwa eYiputa kwiinkulungwane zasemva kwexesha lobulungiseleli bukaYesu emhlabeni, yaye kwakusetyenziswa esi siyelelane xa kubhalwa ulwimi lwantlandlolo.

The complete Bible or parts of it have been translated into more than 2,300 languages and dialects.
IBhayibhile epheleleyo okanye iinxalenye zayo iye yaguqulelwa ngeelwimi ezingaphezu kwama-2 300.

The text of the entire Bible is available in 370 languages, and parts of the Scriptures can be read in a further 1,860 languages and dialects.
Umbhalo weBhayibhile epheleleyo ufumaneka ngeelwimi ezingama-370, kwaye iinxalenye zeZibhalo zinokufundwa ngezinye iilwimi neziyelelani ezongezelelekileyo ezili-1 860.

After listening to a local speaker, one of the visitors, a school principal, exclaimed: “It is not possible that this man that we have always known as an illiterate is able to converse in Spanish [rather than his native dialect], much less to talk to an audience, but he is.”
Emva kokuba ephulaphule isithethi sasekuhlaleni, omnye weendwendwe, oyinqununu yesikolo, wadanduluka wathi: “Akunakwenzeka ukuba le ndoda besisoloko siyazi njengengafundanga ikwazi ukunikela intetho ngeSpanish [kunokuba iyinikele ngolwimi lwakokwayo], kungasathethwa ke ngokuthetha nabaphulaphuli, kodwa ngoku yenjenjalo.”

But since then hundreds more languages and numerous dialects have been added, and in many languages more than one translation has been made available.
Kodwa ukususela ngoko kuye kongezelelwa iilwimi ezingamakhulu neziyelelane ezininzi, ibe kwiilwimi ezininzi kuye kwafumaneka iinguqulelo ezingaphezu kwenye.