Re: dialectal diversity in English

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.
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<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