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Originally posted by KeyStorm
Btw, dragonball, you should know that some Catalans cannot express themselves in Spanish. Some neither understand it. Although they are a minority, they have to be considered.
Speaking in general and about dialects, in many (small) regions in the world there are people talk who speak dialects only, and don't understand the proper motherlanguage, or have a hard time speaking it. Mostly these are older people living sometimes a bit isolated...
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Originally posted by KeyStorm
Dialects are exactly the same as their mother-languages. Any word in a dialect exists in the mother language.
Totaly not true. A dialect can contain many words which don't exist in the motherlanguage.
Also, some "signs" of dialects include: words which are spelled differently or the same words but that have a totaly different meaning in the dialect. So this isn't a valid argument of saying that some language isn't a dialect...
So many languages
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