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6. Language versus dialect
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A matter of definition:
- Analytical linguistic definition, dialects are
related to languages, because of:
- lexical correspondence
- grammatical similarly
- Politico-linguistic definition:
- official status
- literary standard
- dialect chains cut by ‘language’ names:
ethno-linguistic identification
- Toponymic definition: a language is ‘a system
providing a means by which the members of a community can communicate
orally and/or graphically’
- The majority of toponyms has once been created
by the (local) community.
- Those terms traditionally close to the
communities’ daily experience – like geographical generics
– are the first to be distinctive.
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