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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dear Corpora colleagues, in fact, it was not a joke
to ask you about the difference between a dialect and a language though in
linguistics there is no answer to this question. However, the sound picture of a
dialect is different from that of a language. The sound picture of a language is
the phonetic corpora of this language. The corpora on the phonetic level
are different by Ch-square. For instance, in Mansi (Vogul) there are several
dialects. However, the total of the speech sound chains are really two different
linguistic objects. In fact, they are far away from each other than Russian and
Ukrainian, or Russian and Belorussian, which are considered separate languages.
The same was with some Turkic dialects, e.g. Dolgan and Jakut or Altai-Kizhi and
Altai-Teleut. Unfortunately. nobody sent me their answers to my e-mail box
directly. My access to the web site is poor. This is why, I read all your
answers only yesterday, alas! Some of the answers are quite interesting. Some
wrote that it is not possible to solve this problem. I am sure it is possible to
solve this problem with the help of the Chi-square, t-test and other criteria of
mathematical statistics. Looking forward to hearing from you directly to <A
href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</A> Be well, remain yours most
sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>