Re: dialectal diversity in English

Quoting Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>:

> 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.
> >
> >
> So what is? It can hardly be one with an army/navy, because what's
> Basque a dialect of then?
Sorbian.

                                                 Andreas

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