A language is a dialect with an army and navy
"A language is a dialect with an army and navy" is a quip about the arbitrariness of the distinction between a dialect and a language. It points out the influence that social and political conditions can have over a community's perception of the status of a language or dialect. The facetious adage was popularized by the sociolinguist and Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich, who heard it from a member of the audience at one of his lectures in the 1940s.
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- en"A language is a dialect with an army and navy" is a quip about the arbitrariness of the distinction between a dialect and a language. It points out the influence that social and political conditions can have over a community's perception of the status of a language or dialect. The facetious adage was popularized by the sociolinguist and Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich, who heard it from a member of the audience at one of his lectures in the 1940s.
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- en"A language is a dialect with an army and navy" is a quip about the arbitrariness of the distinction between a dialect and a language. It points out the influence that social and political conditions can have over a community's perception of the status of a language or dialect. The facetious adage was popularized by the sociolinguist and Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich, who heard it from a member of the audience at one of his lectures in the 1940s.
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- Dialect
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- A language is a dialect with an army and navy
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- Abstand and ausbau languages
- Académie Française
- Antoine Meillet
- Category:1940s neologisms
- Category:Adages
- Category:Dialectology
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- Category:Quotations from literature
- Category:Sociolinguistics
- Category:Yiddish words and phrases
- Dialect
- Dialect continuum
- Hubert Lyautey
- Jewishness
- Joshua Fishman
- Language
- Language secessionism
- Maskil
- Max Weinreich
- Quip (wit)
- Randolph Quirk
- Sociolinguistics
- Yiddishkeit
- Yiddish language
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- 2z99r
- Æвзаг у, æфсад æмæ флот кæмæ ис, ахæм диалект
- A leid is a dialect wi an airmy an fleet
- Dil ordu və donanmalı dialektdir
- Een taal is een dialect met een leger en een vloot
- Jezik je dijalekt s vojskom i mornaricom
- Język to dialekt z armią i flotą wojenną
- Lingua est dialectus cum exercitu et classi
- Lingvo estas dialekto kun armeo kaj floto
- m.07r6z0
- Ngôn ngữ là phương ngữ kèm với lục quân và hải quân
- Q32454
- Uma língua é um dialeto com um exército e marinha
- Una lengua es un dialecto con un ejército y una marina
- Una lingua è un dialetto con un esercito ed una marina
- Una llengua és un dialecte amb un exèrcit i una marina
- Une langue est un dialecte avec une armée et une marine
- Ur yezh zo ur rannyezh gant lu ha morlu
- Мова — це діалект, у якого є армія та флот
- א שפראך איז א דיאלעקט מיט אן ארמיי און א פלאט
- زبان گویشی با ارتش و ناوگان است
- ภาษาคือภาษาย่อยที่มีทัพบกและทัพเรือ
- 语言就是拥有陆军和海军的方言
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- Category:1940s neologisms
- Category:Adages
- Category:Dialectology
- Category:Political quotes
- Category:Quotations from literature
- Category:Sociolinguistics
- Category:Yiddish words and phrases
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- Eine Sprache ist ein Dialekt mit einer Armee und einer Marine
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