>That's the problem isn't it? A language is assumed to be a dialect of another language just because it uses the same script, regardless of its origins or how m

>That's the problem isn't it? A language is assumed to be a dialect of another language just because it uses the same script, regardless of its origins or how mutually intelligible it is. Is that really the reason? Does it follow then that Vietnamese is a Chinese dialect before it adopted a modified Latin script? I think origins does matter, apart from shared script.