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by just_the_tip 5412 days ago
"A language is a dialect with an army and navy"
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vbtemp 5412 days ago
+ a million if I could. One of my favorite quotes. It's from Max Weinreich, right? "A sprakh iz a dialekt mit an Armee un Flot"
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hasenj 5412 days ago
Except that for Arabic "dialects", the presence of Armies and Navies hasn't turned any of these dialects to a language.

On the other hands, Kurds have their language(s?) despite not having an army or a navy.

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