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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a... but it seems that in
by unhammer 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a... but it seems that in the US, even dialects need to be armed to stand their ground.
Here in Norway, we just call any regional language difference dialectal (unless of course you get to call it a different language, cf. above link). That takes away the need to argue about how much linguistic difference is needed for two dialects to be considered separate or why the difference occurred or whether it's "correct grammar" – if people speak their language differently because they're from different places, that's a dialectal difference. (Anyone who speaks a language thus speaks a dialect of that language.) Simple, but rigorous. There's no value judgement, it's just a factual description.
- gylterud 3y agoWe (in Norway) also recognise that it is not really discrete. In school we learned about the different dialectical traits (like palatalisation, different versions of “r” as well as morphological and lexical differences) and the different areas have which trait. We would listen to speech samples and identify where they are from by recognising traits and computing intersections. We would also learn about how language and dialects evolve over time and compare how old people in our local area talk with how young people talk.