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Mutual intelligibility is sometimes used to distinguish languages from dialects, although sociolinguistic factors are often also used. Intelligibility between varieties can be asymmetric; that is, speakers of one variety may be able to better understand another than vice versa. An example of this is the case between Afrikaans and Dutch. It is ...
Minh là BE giáo viên teacher. Minh là {giáo viên} Minh BE teacher. "Minh is a teacher." Trí Trí 13 13 tuổi age Trí 13 tuổi Trí 13 age "Trí is 13 years old," Mai Mai có vẻ seem là BE sinh viên student (college) hoặc or học sinh. student (under-college) Mai {có vẻ} là {sinh viên} hoặc {học sinh}. Mai seem BE {student (college)} or {student (under-college)} "Mai ...
Linguistic distance is the measure of how different one language (or dialect) is from another. [1] [2] Although they lack a uniform approach to quantifying linguistic distance between languages, linguists apply the concept to a variety of linguistic contexts, such as second-language acquisition, historical linguistics, language-based conflicts, and the effects of language differences on trade.
The variations due to differing wordlists weigh on this. For example, lexical similarity between French and English is considerable in lexical fields relating to culture, whereas their similarity is smaller as far as basic (function) words are concerned. Unlike mutual intelligibility, lexical similarity can only be symmetrical.
However, Vietnamese and Cantonese people do share some feelings of relatedness: both trace their origin to vaguely-documented Yueh ("Viet") peoples of South China and for one thousand years, Vietnam was an internal part of China which could promote immigration and miscegenation (Vietnamese looks more similar to Southern Chinese than Southeast ...
Fragmentary areas of the Dutch-German border in which language change is more gradual than in other sections or a higher degree of mutual intelligibility is present still exist, such as the Aachen-Kerkrade area, but the historical chain in which dialects were only divided by minor isoglosses and negligible differences in vocabulary has seen a ...
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