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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There's a saying 'a language is a dialect with an
army'. Does anyone know where it originated?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Julia</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=Nakerite@aol.com href="mailto:Nakerite@aol.com">Nakerite@aol.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=endangered-languages-l@cleo.murdoch.edu.au
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 26, 2002 2:44
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> ELL: Question and
Announcement</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=3>Hello.
<BR><BR> I am not a trained linguist, but I
am inerested in knowing if there are criteria for dertermining when changes in
a language consitute a dialect, and when a dialect becomes a new language. My
interest is mostly in Spanish dialects. For example, is Ladino a different
language? or is just Spanish written in Hebrew script? Are the Spanglish
dialects real dialects or just street jargons. Does translating from the
standard version of a language into a dialect of that language consititutes a
real translations. And should endangered dialects be saved?
<BR> A new list called Language Rights has
been created. The purpose of the Language Rights list is to discuss such
topics as Language Rights, the politics of language, the presecution and
demise of minority languages, and general lingusitics. Language Rights is the
concept that individuals and communities have certain fundamental rights in
relation to the language(s) that they use or wish to use. <BR><BR></FONT><FONT
lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Language_Rights-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</FONT><FONT
lang=0 face=arial color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"> <BR><BR>Patrick R.
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