Which preposition to use with dialect

of Occurrences 202%

"We are all making dictionaries and grammars; we have still to translate much of our religious instruction, and the great variety in dialect of the scattered tribes keeps us busy with linguistic studies.

in Occurrences 24%

She then fell into an insulting conversation about the comparative genius and merits of all modern languages, and concluded with asserting that the Saxon was esteemed the purest dialect in Germany.

with Occurrences 6%

Speaking the Frank and Teutonic dialects with equal ease, he exercised by his bravery, his wisdom, and the uprightness of his life an influence which brought to his standard, it is said, not less than eighty thousand infantry and ten thousand horsemen, together with his brothers Baldwin and Eustace, Count of Boulogne.

to Occurrences 6%

As they seemed to prefer mimicking our attempts to speak the York dialect to using their own, we could not obtain much information; they carried kylies and dowaks, but had left their spears and shields with the rest of their party, who did not make their appearance.

from Occurrences 5%

The profound linguistic researches of Pictet, Fick, and others have made it probable that at the time when the Old-Aryan language was broken up into the dialects from which the existing languages of Europe are descended, the Aryan tribes were passing from a purely pastoral stage of barbarism into an incipient agricultural stage, somewhat like that which characterized the Iroquois tribes in America in the seventeenth century.

as Occurrences 5%

The Setting or Background gives us the time and the place of the story with such details of custom, scenery, and dialect as time and place imply.

into Occurrences 4%

Chaucer's work and Wyclif's translation of the Bible developed the Midland dialect into the national language of England.

by Occurrences 4%

If we may judge of this family of dialects by Mackenzie's vocabulary of the Chippewayan, it is very remote from the Chippewa, and abounds in those consonantal sounds which the latter studiously avoids.

on Occurrences 3%

When in the front line they use the Sardinian dialect on the telephone.

without Occurrences 2%

The Italian language is spoken here in its greatest purity; it is the pure Tuscan dialect without the Tuscan aspiration.

for Occurrences 2%

'Force' is the word universally employed in these dialects for Waterfall.

over Occurrences 2%

Like the work of Luther, this tended in a great measure to fix the language, preventing the preponderance of one dialect over the other.

than Occurrences 2%

This was based, on the one hand, upon the resemblance of the Jaina doctrines, writings, and traditions to those of the Buddhists, on the other, on the fact that the canonical works of the Jainas show a more modern dialect than those of the Buddhists, and that authentic historical proofs of their early existence are wanting.

between Occurrences 1%

As our car came to a halt there rose a chorus of exclamations in all the dialects between Maine and California, and from the door of a near-by cafe came pouring a flood of Americans.

at Occurrences 1%

I make this explanation, as the reader may have noticed a difference in his dialect at different times.

among Occurrences 1%

There are several languages or dialects among them, and for the most part they go naked, except the clout before mentioned, though some of them wore a kind of short jerkin without sleeves, reaching to the navel.

Which preposition to use with  dialect