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Re: THEORY: Languages divided by politics and religion

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, May 25, 2000, 15:00
Dan Sulani wrote:
> > On 25 May, DaW wrote: > > >Now I'll cut to the chase. Should languages be split according to > >political/ethnic and religious/sectarian divisions, even though the > >languages on each side of the boundary are highly mutually intellegible? > > As someone once said: > "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy." > :-)
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