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

[Debbie Garside]

I don't think we are actually saying anything different here.
 
Best
 
Debbie


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From: Nicolò Zamperini [mailto:nick1915 at gmail.com] 
Sent: 11 September 2007 15:32
To: debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Sardininan - Sassarese languages
orlanguage and dialect?]




2007/9/11, Debbie Garside <debbie at 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)