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		fsckboy on June 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Documenting Aramaic before its native speakers van... the definition linguists use is, "the only difference between a dialect and a language is, a language has a navy"

kubanczyk on June 29, 2022 [–]

It's more of a quip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...

One can use "variety" to side-step the whole problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect

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