ANT253H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Romance Languages, Mutual Intelligibility, Petrarch
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Language forms (such as phonological, grammatical) vary constant across both time and space. If there is a lot of variant forms, they are said to constitute a version of a language called dialect. Geographical dialect or simply dialect different speech in different regions. Social dialect or sociolects how social groups of communities speak. Dialects develop over time due to regional or societal(economic classes or religion) seperations. Dialect speech is often considered to be a marker of identity- e. g. massachusetts people have different vowel pronunciations than the tourists. Dialect is simply a variant version of a language- but the distinction is not so obvious. E. g. romance language such as french, spanish, portuges etc. turn out to be moderd-day dialects of latin- spoken they are spoken in territories that became countries after the breakdown of the roman empire. They were granted the status of official national languages because the countries they were spoken in received political independence.
