A language is a dialect with an army and navy. His point being that the difference between a language and a dialect was ultimately a political distinction and had little to do with linguistics per se.

So what is Scandinavism? Long story short it is the idea that the Scandinavian countries should be closer, perhaps even one country. The movement is primarily literary, linguistic and cultural, ...

Relationships between rare languages in the Colombian Amazon have been revealed by researchers. The only linguistic data available for Carabayo, a language spoken by an indigenous group that lives in ...

The demarcation of dialectological problem areas should be decided by linguistic questions. A problem area is: (1) a dialecto-geographical continuum delimited from outside by a language difference of ...

AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...