2006-12-09 05:52:37 · 15 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Nearly every language has distinct regional dialects, compared to English the diversity in Germany is far greater, many dialects are not mutually understandable, which would make them languages if they had a flag to wave,
Even a small country like Ireland has 3 different dialects in Irish, and 2 very different English ones in Munster and Ulster.
2006-12-09 10:10:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You bet they do. The diversity of dialects in some languages makes English look homogeneous. My question is whether, if dialects are mutually incomprehensible, how can they be the same language. On Chinese, it is asserted that the term is used to describe more than one language.
2006-12-09 07:21:56 · answer #2 · answered by Paul Danon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure, even right here in South Africa the Durban dialect differs from the Cape Townian dialect and then returned Johannesburg has a distinctive dialect besides. interior of something of the rustic we basically very undesirable accents, or very unfavorable English. fortuitously, besides the fact that i'm Afrikaans i don't have a in demand Afrikaans accessory.
2016-10-18 00:47:38 · answer #3 · answered by mulry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly! China's official langauge is Mandarin, but there are several other dialects. The Philippines' official language is Tagalog, but there are many other dialects. Last, but not least, India's offical language is Hindi, but there many more dialects there too.
2006-12-09 06:02:59 · answer #4 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they definitely do. In Chinese, often they are not mutually intelligible, meaning that people who speak one dialect cannot understand those who speak a different one. In Spanish, they are mutually intelligible differences, but they just use very different slang and a few words may be different--> guineo - banana in Dominican Republic while banana- banana in most Latin American countries and in Mexico, cambur is also used for banana in South America.
2006-12-09 06:00:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in Germany we have different dialects.
2006-12-09 06:09:44 · answer #6 · answered by Elly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure. Macedonian language has more than 20 dialects..
2006-12-09 07:10:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-12-09 06:20:06 · answer #8 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, all over!
In Rumantsch (Swiss Alps) there are even five different WRITTEN idioms.
(So you can imagine how happy the Authorities are when they should print textbooks in all five languages.)
2006-12-09 07:38:46 · answer #9 · answered by saehli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. My wife is from western Austria and her dialect is actually a "dead" form of German (Swiss in origin, I believe).
2006-12-09 08:16:00 · answer #10 · answered by bayernfan00 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋