En réponse à John Cowan :
>I suppose the SIL folks, splitters that they are (taxonomists come in two
>subspecies,
>splitters and lumpers), would call this a separate language.
I don't know. Do they separate the Inuit language continuum in plenty of
different languages? This is basically the same phenomenon here.
>BTW (and I send this to the list because I see it popping up repeatedly):
>the adjective from "dialect" is "dialectal"; "dialectical" is the adjective
>from "dialectic", as in "dialectical materialism".
Really?! Strange, don't remember ever seeing "dialectal"... But thanks!
I'll try to correct myself from now on.
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.