[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Sardininan - Sassarese languages or language and dialect?]

[Nicolò Zamperini]

>
> What is a dialect ...
>
> a) a language without an army
> b) a way of expressing orally that developed out of a language and that
> has some differences , for example in pronunciation, some expressions
> etc, even having the same basics when it comes to grammar (just to
> mention one example)
>

You confuse "dialect" with "variant"...difference between language and
dialect is only geographical, difference between language and variant is
typological (common morphology, syntax and phonology)