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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.
For example, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic, other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. [1] Similarly, Chinese is sometimes viewed as a single language because of a shared culture and common literary language. [2]
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Pages in category "Feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,870 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Alphabetic Writing System for sign languages (Sistema de escritura alfabética, SEA, by its Spanish name and acronym), developed by linguist Ángel Herrero Blanco and two deaf researchers, Juan José Alfaro and Inmacualada Cascales, was published as a book in 2003 [91] and made accessible in Spanish Sign Language on-line. [92]
This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
[1] [9] In these terms, Danish and Norwegian, though mutually intelligible to a large degree, are considered separate languages. [8] Conversely, although the varieties of Chinese are mutually unintelligible and have significant differences in phonology, syntax and vocabulary, they may be viewed as comprising a single language because they are ...
Subgroup (片 piàn), which may be mutually unintelligible with other subgroups [note 3] Cluster (小片 xiǎopiàn), which may be mutually unintelligible with other clusters; Local dialect (点 diǎn), which are the dialects sampled by the Atlas; In the list below, [8] local dialects are not listed. Groups are in bold, subgroups are numbered ...