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	Dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Those who identify a particular dialect as the "standard" or "proper" version of a language are in fact using these terms to express a social distinction.
		A dialect continuum is a network of dialects in which geographically adjacent dialects are mutually comprehensible, but with comprehensibility steadily decreasing as distance between the dialects increases.
		Another is the continuum of the Scandinavian languages and dialects, from Swedish dialects of Finland, to Swedish, Gutniska, Älvdalsmål, Scanian, Danish, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Faroese, Icelandic, as well as many local dialects of the respective languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dialect (1904 words)

	Dialect Continuum Encyclopedia Articles @ WorthAClick.com (Worth a Click) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Although Dutch and German are not mutually intelligible, there were numerous transitional dialects that are, for example Limburgish, spoken in parts of the Netherlands and Belgium, and the Low Franconian dialects across the border in Germany (although Limburgish is nowadays sometimes considered a language in its own right).
		The standard written language, Modern Standard Arabic, is based on the Classical Arabic of the Qur'an, while the modern vernacular dialects (or languages) - which form a dialect continuum reaching from the Maghreb in North Western Africa through Egypt, Sudan, and the Fertile Crescent to the Arabian Peninsula - have diverged widely from that.
		Because Arabic is written in an Abjad, the difference between the written standard and the vernaculars also becomes apparent in the written language and so children have to be taught in school to articulate Modern Standard Arabic to be able to write it.
	www.worthaclick.com /encyclopedia/Dialect_continuum (728 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For example, the boundaries between named language groups are in effect arbitrary due to blending between populations (the dialect continuum).
		For instance, there are dialects of German very similar to Dutch which are not mutually intelligible with other dialects of (what Germans call) German.
		Some researchers argue that a continuum exists among the communication methods of all social animals, pointing to the fundamental requirements of group behaviour and the existence of "mirror cells" in primates.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Language (975 words)

	Dialect - Dialect continuum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		("A language is a dialect with an army, a navy and an air force.").
		Thesis on fishermen's dialect on the Southeast coast of Scotland and a glossary of fish names in Scotland from the 1920s.
		A dialect continuum is a range of dialects spoken across a large They form a single dialect continuum, with three recognized literary standards.
	dance-audition.yournetpath.com /?q=dance-audition-dialect (214 words)

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		Other researchers argue that a continuum exists between the communication methods of all animals.
		Almost all researchers agree that human language is more complex than communication between other animals.
		Mark Rosenfelder's Metaverse provides a useful listing of 4000 languages and dialects (grouped by their relationships), where the numbers one to ten in each language can be found
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/la/language_1.html (600 words)

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