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<DIV>To Natasha Warner: Your words in regard to "language vs
dialect" are appreciated ~ too, there is a current debate in this neck of
the woods that strikes a similar cord, only in this case, Ojibwe {Chippewa} vs
Odawaa {Ottawa} ~ some argue Ottawa is a dialect of Ojibwe,
others argue Ottawa is a distinct language in its own right, particularly the
language of Manitoulin Island where the language has under gone a notable
change in the past hundred years. Thanks,
Wayaaseshkang </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
title=mailto:nwarner@U.ARIZONA.EDU href="mailto:nwarner@U.ARIZONA.EDU">Natasha
L Warner</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU">ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 14, 2008 12:24
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ILAT] Ket isn't a dialect,
it's a language (fwd link)</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi,<BR><BR>I think you might be being too generous to the copy
editor or whoever<BR>wrote the title by putting it down to avoiding repeating
the word<BR>"language." (The title does sound bad with "language" twice
though, I<BR>admit). Can you imagine someone saying that, say, Hindi is
related to<BR>English, an ancient Germanic dialect? I think their
calling Ket a<BR>dialect bothers us because the mainstream press only uses
"dialect" to<BR>describe things they don't think of as full languages, or at
least<BR>languages they think of as obscure.<BR><BR>Thanks for posting the
example. I think I just read another one of<BR>"dialect" for "language"
earlier
today.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Natasha<BR><BR>*******************************************************************************<BR>Natasha
Warner<BR>Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics<BR>University of
Arizona<BR>PO Box 210028<BR>Tucson, AZ 85721-0028<BR>U.S.A.<BR><BR>Until
August 2008:<BR>Visiting Researcher<BR>Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics<BR>PO Box 310<BR>6500 AH Nijmegen<BR>the
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