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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Language varieties" 2009.04.15 (01) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2">Maybe this quote from a url from the Research Center of the
Africamuseum in Tervuren can contribute to the discussion around
dialects:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff">The majority of these languages can be
subdivided in<strong> dialects</strong>, i.e. <strong>regional varieties that
are mutually intelligible</strong>. <br>...<br>In certain countries a particular
<strong>dominant dialect</strong> may attain the status of <strong>national
language</strong>. From a linguistic point of view, this dialect and the dialect
of a neighbouring state can in reality be varieties of one and the same
language. This is the case of <strong>Kinyarwanda</strong> (Rwanda) and
<strong>Kirundi</strong> (Burundi), which are, together with <strong>Kiha
</strong>(Tanzania), sufficiently homogenous to be considered by linguists as a
single language, even if this language does not have a specific name [see map
1].</font> </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">quoted from url:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.africamuseum.be/research/anthropology/linguistic/research/anthropology/linguistic/languages" target="_blank">http://www.africamuseum.be/research/anthropology/linguistic/research/anthropology/linguistic/languages</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">For the first definition Low Saxon and Dutch could be
variants of a same group, in case they are considered mutually
intelligible.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">If they are or were, they could be defined as different
national languages for the second definition.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">This does not separate Holland Dutch from Groningen Low Saxon
though.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Roger</font></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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