Language-dialect aphorism
Language-dialect aphorism One of the most frequently stated ... in the discussion of the distinction between dialect and language is, "a language is a dialect with an army ...
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Talk:Language-dialect aphorism
Talk:Language-dialect aphorism Meillet Antoine Meillet wrote extensively about ... who had never heard the statement “a language is a dialect with an army and navy” associated with any specific ...
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Dialect
Dialect A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic ... of arbitrary size. It follows that a dialect for a larger area can contain plenty ... dialects of yet smaller areas, etc. A dialect is a complete system of verbal ...
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Dialect   (translated from German)
Dialect The expression Dialect (of griech. dialegomai: talk with one another ... regional Varietaet (linguistics) (z.B. Standardsprache, standard dialect, Nationalvarietaet, a regional dialect). As those regional Varietaeten, those not the criteria of one Development language fulfill (and/or Standardsprache or High- ...
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Language
Language Language Portal A language is a method of communication and is ... which the symbols are manipulated. The word language is also used to refer to common properties of languages. Language learning is normal in human childhood. ...
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Language (Psychology wiki)
Language Home Support Help Site Support Orientation Background ... Areas Philosophy Psychometrics Statistics Experimental Comparative Biological Language Developmental Soc. processes Social Personality Clinical Professional Education Organisational Other fields Transpersonal World Language Linguistics Semiotics Speech A language is a system of symbols, generally known ... by which they are manipulated. The word language is also used to refer to ...
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Yiddish language
Yiddish language Yiddish (ייִדיש yidish) Pronunciation: IPA: Spoken in ... app. 50,000 in Canada (2005 - Eastern). Language family: Indo-European Germanic West German High ... Writing system: Hebrew alphabet Official status Official language of: recognised minority language in Sweden and Russia Regulated by: YIVO Language codes ISO 639-1: yi ISO ...
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Talk:Arvanitic language/Archive 2
Talk:Arvanitic language/Archive 2 < Talk:Arvanitic language Archive: 2005 • Current Page move I ... choice. It does not toe the separate language line of Arvanitika language, nor does it toe the Albanian dialect line of Arvanitika Albanian (which is ...
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Talk:Scots language
Talk:Scots language /Archive1 (before January 1, 2005) History From ... was called Scots (or Scottis) while the language of Lowlanders (basically a remnant of the ... Scots as a name for the Lowland language clouds our view of the past. It ... called and the role that an Anglian language played in Scotland's history. I blame ... to Erse. No doubt if the Pictish language had not been eradicated by the ...
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Talk:Yiddish language
Talk:Yiddish language Archived Talk:Yiddish language/Archive 1 tatysch or dyatsch? Ajd and ... yidish daytsh? That is, daytsh means the language, and taytsh is a related word that ... of Hebrew and Aramaic into a Romance language — and thus means something quite different ... to Semitic" rather than "of the German language or culture/nation" the same way ...
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