RE: [geolang-comment] what is a language

["Bandholtz, Thomas" <Thomas.Bandholtz@koeln.sema.slb.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray Altheim [mailto:m.altheim@open.ac.uk]
...
> The Ethnologue is very cool, and while I myself don't have any
> particular difficulty with it (being a white male whose native tongue
> is English), there are some people who violently disagree with its
> characterizations. Calling someone's spoken language a "dialect" can
> end in fisticuffs in a lot of places. Do we really want to get into
> that? I'm unclear to what end you guys are leading, other than
> perhaps general interest.

I someone identifies an endangered language, or dialect, or whatsoever, she
should be able to make a PSI about it. Ethnologue  did something like this
without having heard about PSI probably. "some people who violently
disagree" could do the same, and: here we go!

Thomas Bandholtz
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