How Should We Define Languages and Dialects?
May 25 2023

How Should We Define Languages and Dialects?

🔥 Learn languages like I do with LingQ: https://shorturl.at/zELN2 CC subtitles available in multiple languages. I have always been interested in the origins of languages and the differences between languages. In my latest video I explore some world languages that share a lot in common and try to answer the question “what is a language?“. 0:00 How I am preparing for my trip to Denmark, Sweden and Poland. 1:35 Czech and Slovak: very similar, so why are they considered distinct languages? 2:42 Often the distinction between a language and a dialect is political. 3:09 The situation with Ukrainian and Russian. 3:55 What about Cantonese? 5:17 How the definition of languages and dialects changed in Europe, especially in the 19th century. 7:50 Creole and patois languages. ___ Study a language on LingQ: https://shorturl.at/zELN2 Study this video on LingQ: https://shorturl.at/iqtX0 My Podcast: Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/3iZsbic Apple: https://apple.co/3z1F1lD Google: https://bit.ly/2W3DYmK Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4TbcX8ilVmVTi6jdQVHuwK Get my 10 Secrets of Language Learning: https://www.thelinguist.com FREE grammar guides: https://www.lingq.com/en/grammar-resource/ Join the LingQ Discord server: https://discord.gg/ShPTjyhwTN My language learning blog on The Linguist: https://bit.ly/2MW83Ab My Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/lingosteve_/ My TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lingosteve The LingQ language learning blog: https://bit.ly/35yvaqK #languagelearning #languages #polyglot
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