Re: THEORY: Languages divided by politics and religion

Danny Wier 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?
> (In other words, being a "splitter"; SIL is like that.)  Or should languages
> be "lumped" together even if co-comprehension is very low
Both.  A distinction should be made between "political languages", which
would divide between Croatian and Serbian, and "linguistic languages"
which would divide among mutual intelligibility guidelines [admittedly,
there would be cases where the boundaries are fuzzy]

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