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Re: THEORY: Languages divided by politics and religion

From:Carlos Eugenio Thompson (EDC) <edccet@...>
Date:Thursday, May 25, 2000, 15:41
> 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." > :-) >
Or a lobby group withing a country with a liberal government. -- Carlos Th By other definition: language is what you believe you speak and some people around you agree.