Re: USAGE: (Mis)Naming a Language

Sally Caves scripsit:

> Which moves me to wonder whether there are any separate natural
> languages that share the same name?  There have to be, given how many
> there are and have been in the world.
Ethnologue lists several even in the basic language list, and when you
get to dialects, there are many such overlaps.

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