Dialects always sound an interesting topic to me. There are probably thousands of dialects in my country. I have no idea about how many dialects exist in my hometown, but I know each town in this county has its own dialects. Huge difference could be found among some, so it may happen that people who do not live very far could not understand each other very well. Actually, my mom is from different county than my dad. I remember that when I was young, I liked visiting my mom’s parents. However, I was laughed at because I spoke a little different than the people there do; even people were just kindly joking.
Finegan is so right about the dialect use. People use dialects to show their social identities-- to indicate which group they belong to. Many people may be able to more than one dialect, but they would prefer to speak one of them. Finegan states that what counts most are just the views of the speakers. This is so true.
The topic about “Northern Shift” and “Southern Shift” are presented in this chapter. I’ve heard about that before. The shift itself is amazing, but I wondered about the reason behind those shift. Is that because people who move to that area tend to talk alike, then those shift happened? Why did they happen in this way instead of the other way? I think it may be worth researching. I’ll try to see what I could find.
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As Finegan says various people use various kind of dialect. Even though the language is same but the way of using dialect is different. It might be interesting to let you know that same newari language has 47 different dialect as per the use of it in different cities. Sometime though the people are using Newari language, but the newar who speaks newari language from different city cannot understand each other properly.
Wow. That's amazing. What's your official langauge in Nepal, byt he way?
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