[Foundation-l] Sassarese and Sardinian

[Marco Chiesa]

So you go and tell people that an organisation they probably have never 
heard of (ISO) has decided that what they used to think of as four 
dialects of the same language are actually four distinct languages, and 
to other people that their dialects that are mutually incomprehensible 
that they speak the same language. Apart from the jokes, last time I had 
a look on sc.wikipedia there was someone advocating the use of  the 
unified language, which was basically spoken by an academic who invented 
it alone; this resulted in no one else contributing to that wiki.

Cruccone

GerardM wrote:

>Hoi,
>What you write is completely beside the point. At issue is Sardinian and
>Sassarese not Romansh or Lombard. As far as the language committee is
>concerned, there are four Sardinian languages and none of them is the Limba
>Sarda Comune.
>
>We are quite adamant that a language needs recognition as such. There are
>many issues with regard to this kind of recognition but the most relevant
>part is that it is a process that takes time and involves many experts. It
>takes so much time because the standard organisations do their best to get
>it right. Where you describe dialects within a languages, it is not specific
>to Italian languages. The issue of some people trying to come to a "unified"
>language is not unique to Sardinia either.
>
>Thanks,
>    GerardM
>
>On 9/10/07, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli a gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Sardinian is a collection of different dialects spoken in Sardinia.
>>
>>The environment is similar to Romansh (which is a collection of
>>different languages as Surmiran, Sursilvan etc.) with the difference
>>that the super-language Romansh is officially recognized and has got a
>>grammar and a dictionary.
>>
>>The problem is generated because it's not clear what is language and
>>what is dialect.
>>
>>Using dialect in some environment like Europa you could have
>>differences between two closest town. The nuances are very strong and
>>the language is not stable (there differences during the years and
>>influences).
>>
>>The Lumbard (lmo.wikipedia.org) for example has got hundred different
>>dialects and not a superlanguage officially recognized, and two
>>different speakers of two lumbard dialect are not completely
>>understandable each other.
>>
>>Ilario
>>
>>    
>>