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

[Nicolò Zamperini]

O_o First Gerard sentence was: "Sassarese is a language 'cause ISO,
Ethnologue etc."

???

2007/9/11, Debbie Garside <debbie a ictmarketing.co.uk>:
>
>  I don't think we are actually saying anything different here.
>
> Best
>
> Debbie
>
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> *From:* Nicolò Zamperini [mailto:nick1915 a gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 11 September 2007 15:32
> *To:* debbie a ictmarketing.co.uk; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Sardininan - Sassarese languages
> orlanguage and dialect?]
>
>
>
> 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)
>
>
>