What’s the difference between a language and a dialect? Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a quasar and a pulsar, or between a rabbit and a hare? Faced with the question, linguists like to repeat the grand old observation of the linguist and Yiddishist Max Weinreich, that “a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.”
2. https://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/dialectsofenglish.html
English is actually an unusual language. Already a blend of early Frisian and Saxon, it absorbed Danish and Norman French, and later added many Latin and Greek technical terms. In the US, Canada, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and elsewhere, it absorbed terms for indigenous plants, animals, foodstuffs, clothing, housing, and other items from native and immigrant languages.
3. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/13/death-of-dialect-dont-believe-a-word-british-library
Dialect has been mourned for a while now. It is well over 20 years since the term "estaury English" was first coined, while a more recent report concluded that “talking to machines and listening to Americans” could spell the death of regional accents and much-cherished dialect words within the next 50 years.
4. https://theconversation.com/dont-assume-language-or-dialect-is-locked-to-a-particular-place-92374
Don't assume language or dialect is locked to a particular place.
English from its origins is a language of regional dialects.
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