The Difference Between a "Language" and a "Dialect"
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- What is the difference between a "language" and a "dialect?" This short video explores the different use of these terms and their meanings from both a layperson's and a linguist's perspective. Real world case studies and examples from around the world are used to illustrate and explore different criteria for choosing one term over another to label a given mode of speech.
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Very useful for differentiate the dialect and language.
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A very informative and illustrative presentation on the differences between dialects and languages. It seems the difference is only arbitrary based on the various contexts.
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Difference between a language and a dialect explained very categorically
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You've made good distinction between what is language and what is dialect
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-Dr Virenkumar Pandya
BDK ARTS AND COMMERCE COLLEGE GADHADA
I mostly don't agree with your analysis, perhaps it could be good for english speaking people, but in my opinion you cannot compare the use of dialects in all countries.
I come from Italy and differences between Italian and dialect can be very drastic.
But let's go by order:
1) A LANGUAGE IS BIGGER THAN A DIALECT.
Yes and no: I'm from Fano by which is located on the Adriatic coast in the center of Italy. In Fano we have three dialects: one from the centre of the city, one from the country and one from the port, They're quite similar to Italian, except the port one, and Fanese it's poorer than italian, but it has some words that italian doesn't have. But if you go in Naples, or Calabria or Sicily or Sardinia they have completely other dialects which are real languages bigger than the Italian.
2) MORE PEOPLE SPEAK A LANGUAGE. You got that right, but don't forget that here in Italy the Italian is the most spoken Language since the 1960ies. Before of that, because of the most part of italian people were illitterate, they just spoke their own dialects.
3) A LANGUAGE IS THE STANDARD FORM. This point, in my opinion in very wrong for several reasons. Historical reason is that Italian developped through the centuries as well as English, German, French and so on; but so it's for all italian dialects. For a sociological reason is also not so correct because if you go to Naples or somewhere in Campania region they all speak neapolitan or campanian among them and so the most part of them does with somebody who isn't from that area. But just in case that they see that you don't understand a single word of what they say, they switch on Italian Language.
4) A LANGUAGE IS THE CORRECT FORM. This point for Italian people is also wrong because Italian is just Italian and Dialects are just Dialects. It's uncorrect when you try to speak italian with dialectal rules or vice versa.
5)DIALECTS HAVE MUTUAL INTELLIGIBILITY, LANGUAGE DO NOT. Let's just say that in Fano a person speaking the dialect from the center could not understand a person speaking the port one, and they' re from the same city. Of course if you are from Italy you can't understand people speaking in german, unless you studied. But here's the difference: you can study foreign languages, but you can't study dialects. You have just to live in a certain place if you want learn a certain dialect. Plus dialect wants the correct pronouciation of each word: if you don't have it, just forget about it.
6) DIALECTS ARE REGIONAL. Dialects in Italy are more than regional, they're from that very city and that's it. Nevertheless there could be some recurring words/forms available for a corregional dialect, and for interregional dialects too.
7) DIALECTS ARE SUBSET OF A LANGUAGE. This is very wrong mainly for historical regions. Let's just considerate that Italian language itself becomes from Florence/Tuscany dialect. Plus we have a lot of dominations all over Italy: Roman one, Phoenician one, Arabian one, Gallian one, Germanic one Normannic one, and so on. Each domination brought severe influences on the spoken languages of our ancestors and because of that every italian city has its own dialect/s. In conclusion odiern Italian language owns a lot to dialects because it was born from dialects. So it's even disregarding saying that Dialects are just subset of Italian Language. Another important reason is that, either in Northern Italy either in Southern Italy, there are dialects which are completely different from Italian Language: they're just other actual languanges. So they can never be considerate as subset of italian Language.
I perfectly know that my english is not good. Just forgive me about this.
staccatofiddler Maybe you didn't watch the whole video or didn't understand enough. This list is called the "layperson's" judgement. He discusses in the rest of the video why the individual points on this llist aren't entirely accurate.
That is because in Italy politics define "dialect" much more than most elsewhere. What is in Italy considered dialects are in reality often seperate languages, sometimes even from a completely seperate branch of Romance languages, for example the Venetian language, which therefore can't possibly be considered a dialect.
BuenosNachos It's same thing in Algeria , the Berber dialect is most important than Arabic language
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well differentiated dialect from language
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Categorically explained the difference between language and dialect. "A language is a dialect with an army and navy." The only universal difference is political.
what about historical changes on language? do you consider them as old dialects of a language or dead languages? then immediately a new language borns without roots? if old one died. or dialect gets improved to new dialect but all are the same language
many quote and quote Chinese dialects are actually fully developed languages that are separate languages, totally mutually unintelligible. like Shanghai ness, Cantonese, wanzhounese, etc.
they are all Chinese only the written form is Chinese, which is basically mandarin Chinese.
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Very precise information on diffence between language and dialect
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Can you tell me please what is the factors that make dialects different ..and how are they
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What does this expression mean: " a language is a dialect with an army and navy ".?
Can I get different between language and standard language?
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may i get any structure of assignment based on which i can distinguish between standard Bangla and a dialect????
A specific idea on the difference between the language and dialect
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in programming we have only languages , no dialects , so I don't care what you think about , for me a dialect is also a language.
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can we say dialect is to language what race is to specie?
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Cantonese has 9 tones instead of 7 tones.
I hear five tones and my parents are teochew and cantonese speakers. Again the problem is usa , australia, canada are separate countries but all speak english. Same with mexico, argentina, cuba, all speak castilian spanish. So why do former colonies often still call the language by their former colonial master, yet neighbouring countries in former yugoslavia or scandinavia are called separate languages. But in contrast to roman alphabet languages, english and finnish do not understand one another yet cantonese, mandarin, taiwanese, shanghainese etc all understand the common written chinese language. Please never call mandarin standard chinese by the way. In hong kong, macau , canada, guangzhou cantonese is standard chinese taught in schools and government.
You say dialects have mutual intelligibility, but languages don't. My native tongue is Spanish and I find mutual intelligibility with Portuguese, Italian, Papiamento, Cabo Verde creole.
In all we called those languages latino
Only Brazilian Portuguese, lol!
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