It says English for all of them - ASL is listed as a dialect.
The point there is that the UK is listed as the primary and original form,
everything else is subordinate - a spin off.
SIL is focussing on spoken language not on orthography, however.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English
A wiki article that clearly states that american english is the primary
language of america.
and then goes on to use that inaccurate and meaningless term "British
English" to describe differences between AE and E. (ask a Scouser, a Geordie
or a Cockney if they speak British English! They won't know what you mean).
It's appalling inaccurate because there are some vowel sounds in some
dialects in England which are the same as in America - like in Wiltshire for
example. Further, many dialects in England are as different from standard
English than American is - and even more divergent than Australian.
I mean, I want to challenge the term "British English" simply on it's
definition; but that's a digression.
On 19/09/05, Alphax <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Jack & Naree wrote:
<snip>
If you want to go academic - which is surely the
best way to back this
whole argument up, you should scan this (ironically american) leading
insitute of linguistic research:
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=eng
Interesting, the language I speak is further removed from the langauge
you speak - I speak a dialect called Australian Standard English, but
people in the USA just speak English.
Well, join the UK chapter of the WMF (if it's been created yet) and
things might happen.
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