i somehow knew scandinavia would make an appearance in a video about the difference between dialect and languages.

I would remove the “mutually intelligible” from the definition of dialects. Cause I speak Swiss German (which differs in both grammar and vocabulary from the standard variety) and I know a lot of Germans who would not understand me, when I speak my dialect. Probably the best definition in my opinion would be: Dialects are to varieties within the same dialect continuum, that use the same variety as standard variety. The definition is still not perfect, cause also here there are exceptions (one would be another Swiss language: Romansh, which has 5 idioms and each idiom uses its own standard, but they are still considered one language), but I think it’s generally the better definition.

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Thanks for shedding more light on this. Are the 5 varieties of Romansh mutually intelligible?

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@@AzeLinguistics As far as I know they mostly are, but not 100%. With Romansh Grischun they did actually attempt to create a single standard, but it’s not really successful and most people continue to use the local varieties.

Very helpful video....thank you

I think it's more complicated than what was said here, but maybe you go more into it in another video. Two people can both be speaking English, but not understand each other very well, or even at all. Or the understanding can go one way, but not the other.

I'm from tanzania, my thinking is different I use a lot of time to different the dialect and language, final agree that language and dialect are the same thing no any different because each one have the same function in the society and both are abitrary vocal symbols that operate in society

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the dialects in the new word and old world developed in different ways, while in europe it was usualy by tribes who spoke similar dialects uniting in one country and developing one unified standart language(germany, poland)which became the official one, at the same time most people being illiterate, in america it was the other way around, people brought allready a codyfied standart language with them and spread it.Thats why for example speakers of german dialects cant ofted uderstand each other allthough they speak technicaly only dialects while speakers of american dialects have not this problem.

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I think this definition of dialect has some problems. May be it is suitable for languages which are official language of a country.Because of being official language their dialects have more common words at the same time they are familiar to their pronunciations. But some languages are not official language of any country. Their accent speakers have less relationship and they don't understand each other because of pronunciation.

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