A language is a dialect with an army and navy. His point being that the difference between a language and a dialect was ultimately a political distinction and had little to do with linguistics per se.

What’s the difference between a language and a dialect? Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a quasar and a pulsar, or between a rabbit and a hare? Faced with ...

A language does not need to be recognized, promulgated and legislated by the government to be a language (because even governments do not exactly know how many languages there are exactly). One does ...

By the comprehensibility criterion, Cantonese is not a dialect of Chinese. Rather, it is a language, as are Shanghaiese, Mandarin and other kinds of Chinese.

Language vs. dialect Something we have to remember though is that another main difference between languages and dialects is its origin. A dialect stems from a language, just with its own regional ...

Pride in difference That pride is nothing new. Even before the end of the 19th century, people were calling attention to Newfoundland and Labradorʼs language and folklore, Hiscock says.

The difference between a language and a dialect depends upon whom you ask. The linguistics angle Many linguists base their determination of language-or-dialect on whether forms of speech are ...

Such as: what is the difference between a dialect and a language? The classic groan-out-loud linguist joke answer is that the latter has an army and navy. Politics , innit, as you might say in MLE.

On today’s episode of Spectacular Vernacular, Nicole and Ben talk about the difference between a dialect and a language as they revisit a prior conversation about Ukraine.

TO people at opposite ends of the country, the differences between the Welsh language they speak have long been a source of amusement and one-upmanship.