Dialect or language: What separates one from the other?

02/05/2022 5 min Temporada 1 Episodio 85

                    Dialect or language: What separates one from the other?

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Beyond the theoretical definitions, the distinction between what we call a language and what we call a dialect gets a lot murkier very quickly. Quite often, politics play an important role in whether something gets labeled a language or a dialect.