What is the term for, and a list of, "continuous dialects"?
2011年11月3日 · This phenomenon is called language continuum or dialect continuum. According to Wikipedia: In sociolinguistics, a language continuum is said to exist when two or more …
romance languages - Can the "dialect continuum" phenomenon …
2018年1月4日 · Dialect continuum does not mean necessarily a continuum where there is inter-intelligibility. It is when linguistic facts change in relation to spatial distance, in sum, the …
Proximity of Dutch and German explained by the history of language
2022年4月20日 · Well, the language vs. dialect question is not really a linguistic one but more a political one: A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. By this criterion, Dutch is clearly …
What exactly is the "German Language" - Linguistics Stack Exchange
2016年8月29日 · Sometimes, even though well within the dialect continuum, the understanding of nearby local dialects can be very difficult even for locals. The Lech river in western Bavaria is …
Is there a clear linguistic reason for Swiss German not being ...
2021年11月30日 · Alemannic dialects and other German dialects are part of the same dialect continuum. Standard German and Alemannic co-exist in diglossia - standard German is the …
Is there a list of mutually intelligible languages?
Also, there is an article on Wikipedia called Mutual intelligibility, and it has a nice list of mutually intelligible languages. As noticed, there are several aspects by which linguistic distances (LD) …
phonology - Is there a phonological division in Slavic languages as ...
2020年10月17日 · South Slavic is a dialect continuum but not provably a phylogenetic clade. That is, there were multiple waves from different places in the North. It's not like the La Spezia …
What's the longest extant dialect continuum?
2018年12月18日 · For geographical distance, I think a Slavonic dialect continuum from the westernmost dialects of Czech via Slovak, Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Southern Russian, and …
historical linguistics - Which languages influenced the Hindustani ...
2018年12月27日 · Wikipedia says the Mughal Empire had: Common languages Persian (official and court language) Arabic (for religious ceremonies) Chagatai Turkic (only initially) Urdu …
phonology - Calabrian/Sicilian and unstressed e/o - Linguistics …
2017年8月7日 · Then I got to know a couple Calabrian songs whose dialect seemed almost Sicilian, so I extended that principle to Calabrian (at least Siculo-Calabrian) as well. Except I …