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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered how dialects form? And what the difference between a dialect and an accent actually is? In this edition of Explain This Linguist Kate Burridge explains how dialects work.