PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Are they two languages or one, Dakota and Lakota? And what about the more distant cousin tongue, Nakota? And how many people speak these languages? Linguist Armik Mirzayan at the ...

What’s the difference between a language and a dialect? Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a quasar and a pulsar, or between a rabbit and a hare? Faced with the ...

The dialects of a single language may thus be defined as mutually intelligible forms of a language that differ in systematic ways from each other. Many North Americans encounter British dialects that ...

Shanghai dialect is a dialect spoken in the city of Shanghai and the surrounding region. Shanghainese, like other Wu dialects, is largely not mutually intelligible with other Chinese dialects such as ...

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.

Associate Professor of Linguistics, Dr Trinh Cam Lam, head of Department of Linguistics of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities shares about the need to preserve Hanoi dialect in ...