Right.
Andalusian is not a dialect, there are a lot of dialects in Andalusia, but all of those dialects that are spoken in Andalusia, are a linguistic unit.
Every body that are not from Andalusia, but from Spain, cannot realized the differencies between two diferent persons from Andalusia that speaks different dialects from that unit that we call andalusian, but they realize, that those speakers are from Andalusia, and they hava problems to understand what the andalusians say. But the andalusian can understand another andalusians, and all of them consider they speak the same thing.
Andalusian is a language composed of many dialects, as every language in the world.
Bye
From: Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: New Language Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:00:33 +0100
2005/11/13, Timwi timwi@gmx.net:
I would like to create a new wikipedia in my language, but it do not appear in the language-list, so I think I have to ask for its creation here.
Andalusian is the name of that language in Englisch, its regional name is Andalùh.
Andalusian is a dialect of Spanish. As far as I can see, Ethnologue's 14th edition had an entry on it, while the 15th edition has removed it and demoted it to the status of Spanish dialect.
Ethnologue also states (in the entry about Asturian) that Andalusian is less different from Spanish than Asturian; keeping in mind that Asturian is already quite close (although we do have a separate Asturian Wikipedia at ast), it would seem that for the purposes of Wikimedia, Andalusian is effectively Spanish.
When I read [[en:Andalusian Spanish]], I also see as an issue that there is no single Andalusian dialect, but that there are a number of dialects, which have large differences as well as a number of similarities which set them apart from other Spanish languages and dialects.
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