Dialects _____ from the standard form of a language. |
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Votes: 286
Comments: 6
Added: December 2003
| italianbrother - 26th December 2003 02:23 |
| It differs. For in some languages, such as in Italian, dialects are complete different languages, running parallel to the country’s language. |
| willbut - 28th December 2003 00:12 |
| Doesn't it depend on whether they are derived from the standard form or not? |
| italianbro - 3rd January 2004 01:03 |
| not in italian, except tuscan which is the standard italian, all other are diffrent languages. |
| butterfly - 12th January 2004 15:26 |
| to say it is different is to suggest that there is another form of standard language, standard to the group of users. to say it a deviation is to suggest that dialects are not the norms but something inferior to that which is standard. What is standard, howeve, is relative to time and place. |
| willbut - 20th January 2004 01:10 |
| 'Differ' seems less judgemental. To the dialect speaker, standard language seems strange. I'd use 'differ'. |
| kaboodleus - 10th March 2005 03:12 |
| The standard language is itself a dialect. |
