Dialects......?

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What is a dialect?
Why are dialects important?

2007-03-04 16:22:08 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages

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What is a dialect and what a language is often more a political than a linguistic question.

There is eg an "Italian" language, based mostly on Florentine, but taken to include such disparate languages as Sardinian and Rhetoromansch, simply because chance made those regions Italian.

Catalan is clearly not a dialect of Castillian, though it is another Romance language. In this case "dialecto" was used as an insult.

2007-03-04 16:37:03 · answer #1 · answered by obelix 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Here you can see what a dialect is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect

I have no idea if they're important or not, sorry.

2007-03-05 08:05:41 · answer #2 · answered by olessa_lds 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋