Saturday, April 19, 2014

Language Is A Collection Of Dialects



Most speakers of the same language can talk to each other and pretty much understand each other.  Yet, no two speakers are exactly alike.  Some differences are the results of age, sex, social situation, and where and when the language was learned.   These differences are reflected in word choices, the pronunciation of words, and grammatical rules.  Also, pronunciation, intonation and pitch may differ from one language to another and from one dialect to another, even among accents of these dialects. In addition, word order, phonology, morphology, verb conjunction, grammar, and every day vocabulary shift while translating most of the languages such as the case in translating from Arabic to English.  When there are systematic differences in the way different groups speak a language, we say that each group speaks a dialect of that language since a language is a collection of dialects.  Almost every language in the world has two or more dialects within it.  Some languages have more than 200 dialects as the case in South African countries and different accents.  Usually these different accents emerge between geographical separation and generation gap.

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