May 25 2023
How Should We Define Languages and Dialects?
I have always been interested in the origins of languages and the differences between languages. In my latest video I explore some world languages that share a lot in common and try to answer the question “what is a language?“.
0:00 How I am preparing for my trip to Denmark, Sweden and Poland.
1:35 Czech and Slovak: very similar, so why are they considered distinct languages?
2:42 Often the distinction between a language and a dialect is political.
3:09 The situation with Ukrainian and Russian.
3:55 What about Cantonese?
5:17 How the definition of languages and dialects changed in Europe, especially in the 19th century.
7:50 Creole and patois languages.
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