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Re: dialectal diversity in English

From:Daniel Ryan Prohaska <daniel@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 7, 2003, 16:39
Daniel Ryan Prohaska wrote:

>Mutual intelligibility/incomprehensibility has never been a criterium >for deciding wether a specific variety is a dilect or a separate >language in comparison to another variety. > >
<Tristan wrote: <So what is? It can hardly be one with an army/navy, because what's <Basque a dialect of then? A language with its own dialects, of course. The above mentioned can be a criterion, but does not necessarily have to be. Dan