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

[Mark Williamson]

...having said that, Campidanese and Logudorese are both easily
intelligible to LSC, that is its intent. Anybody who speaks
Campidanese or Logudorese should easily and rapidly understand any
text written in it. Campidanese and Logudorese are not _that_
different.

Mark

On 11/09/2007, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/09/2007, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/9/11, Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella at yahoo.it>:
> > dialects, which are not). The question should be whether the 4
> > languages and the newly created official version are close enough to
> > be considered dialects of a single language. If that is the case, then
> > there's only one official form of the language, and using that is not
> > a strange thing to do.
>
> Unfortunately, the language committee refuses to do that because it
> would be "unfair", despite the fact that linguists can and have done
> studies in intelligibility for certain varieties (although, I am
> guessing, not those of Sardinia).
>
> Instead, they choose to believe that anything assigned its own ISO
> code must automatically be a separate language, and anything that does
> not have one must be invalid and need to be deleted right away because
> it is just a mutually intelligible dialect or a non-existant language
> squatting a code that belongs to somebody else.
>
> Standards compliance is a good thing, but there is a certain point at
> which the enforcers of the standards become rabid and they have gone
> too far.
>
> Mark
>
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>


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