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

[Nicolò Zamperini]

2007/9/11, Debbie Garside <debbie a ictmarketing.co.uk>:
>
> Languages, dialects, complexes and clusters etc. should be considered from
> the bottom up... In most cases it is a combination of dialects that makes
> a
> language - usually with one dialect being used as the preferred standard.
>
> Thus languages are formed from dialects that can be much older than the
> language itself but in creating a hierarchy it is easier to show the
> dialects under the language.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Debbie



It is not simple: language and dialect are the same thing, the only
difference is geographical (num. of speakers)
Variant is a variant of that language when it is typologicaly similiar. (see
Sass. and Sard)