Re: THEORY: Languages divided by politics and religion
| From: | Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 25, 2000, 8:56 |
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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."
:-)
Dan Sulani
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