Isn't that true for any european language? There is a standard language and many local dialects that are more or less close to that standard. That doesn't make

Isn't that true for any european language? There is a standard language and many local dialects that are more or less close to that standard. That doesn't make standard Italian, or standard German, or standard Russian, or any other standard language artificial, in the sense of Esperanto or Volapuk.