ELL: Question and Announcement

[Nakerite at AOL.COM]

Hello.

       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?
       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.

Language_Rights-subscribe at yahoogroups.com

Patrick R. Saucer

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