Re: dialectal diversity in English

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> I don't know. Do they separate the Inuit language continuum in plenty of
> different languages? This is basically the same phenomenon here.
Yes.  Going east to west, there are five Inuktitut langs: Greenlandic,
Eastern Canadian, Western Canadian, North Alaskan Inupiatun, Northwest
Alaskan Inupiatun.  Likewise, there are five Yupik ones: Central Alaskan,
Pacific Gulf Alaskan, Central Siberian (mostly spoken on a U.S.  island),
Sirenik (1 speaker left), Naukan.

> Really?! Strange, don't remember ever seeing "dialectal"...
Note the subject line.  :-)

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