Re: Devanagari handwriting?
| From: | Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 10, 2004, 19:05 |
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:10:19 -0500, J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> wrote:
>Not all dialects of a language need to be mutually intellegible. Most
>linguists consider the Bavarians to speak German, though I don't doubt that
>some linguists may consider the Bavarians not to belong to the German
>speaking world.
What makes out a dialect is that it only varies slightly from the main
language, so it can be understood without much problems by all speakers of
the main language.
Once a dialect has changed so tremendously from the main language that it is
totally unintelligible to speakers of the main language (as is the case with
Bavarian), it has become a proper language of its own.
--
Pascal A. Kramm, author of:
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