Re: Devanagari handwriting?

J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:05:39 -0500, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:
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>>On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:10:19 -0500, J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...>
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>There may be some linguists who share that point of view, but most will
>consider other factors as well, such as standard language, literature,
>media, etc.
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I think the primary deciding factor is what you answer when people ask
what your first language is.

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