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

[Debbie Garside]

I have already said that it is not down to ISO to classify.  I do not think
that everything within Ethnologue is a language and likewise I do not think
that everything that is not in Ethnologue is not a language.  I think you
will find that SIL and the ISO 639-3 RA are of the same mind.  I think the
argument "what is a language?" is a lengthy one :-)
 
Best
 
Debbie
 
 


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From: Nicolò Zamperini [mailto:nick1915 at gmail.com] 
Sent: 11 September 2007 15:51
To: debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Sardininan - Sassarese languages
orlanguage and dialect?]


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

???


2007/9/11, Debbie Garside <  <mailto:debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk>
debbie at 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 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 <  <mailto:debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk>
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)