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I found this article to be rather more illuminating on this question, as it addresses the ambiguity in how you slice up the world into distinct linguistic chunk
by jdale27 9y ago
I found this article to be rather more illuminating on this question, as it addresses the ambiguity in how you slice up the world into distinct linguistic chunks: https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/how-many-languages-are-there-world https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/how-many-languages...
- kwhitefoot 9y agoMuch better! The other one is all data but not much knowledge.
- ufmace 9y agoMuch more interesting article at least mentioning the difficulties that came to mind reading the other one. Like exactly how do we distinguish a different language when some say it's a dialect of another language? At exactly what point is it and is it not another language?