Re: THEORY: Languages divided by politics and religion
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 25, 2000, 15:00 |
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Dan Sulani wrote:
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> On 25 May, DaW wrote:
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> >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?
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> As someone once said:
> "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy."
> :-)
Counterexamples: Yiddish, Afrikaans.
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