Danny Wier wrote:
>I'm reading more on the North Caucasian languages (where I got A LOT of
>ideas for Tech phonology). I understand that in Vladikavkaz, Russia, which
>is on the Chechen-Ingush border, it's common for a Chechen to speak Chechen
>to an Ingush, and the Ingush to reply in Ingush, and they understand each
>other enough to hold an everyday conversation.
That makes one wonder if Chechen and Ingush are really to be considered
different languages.
>Is it possible, or practical, for this to happen in the real world for
>speakers of two more different languages? Like I was speaking English to a
>Spanish speaker and he'd be speaking Spanish to me.... ~Danny~
I must confess to having conversations with a German wherein I spoke German
and he Swedish. We tend to switch pretty freely 'tween English, German and
Swedish.
Andreas
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