What is the differences between language and dialect?

Dialect is the type of words people use; for instance southern and northern Americans dialects are very different. Southerners say "howdy" northerners say "hi Language is a vernacular that each country has. For example Mexicans speak Spanish, and Frenchman speak French Answer: The difference between dialect and language is one of those slippery areas that linguists love to slide around in, setting up rules and writing lengthy treatises.

Obviously there are languages which are so separate that their origins come from the autochthonous peoples of the area (Chinese: Latin: Native American) others can trace their roots back through the years in language trees linking them (Sumerian --> Latin--> French) We'll talk about this second group first To most linguists, a dialect is a location specific variant of a language (French Canadian French is a dialect of Parisian French) which maintains many ties to the "parent" even though it may have local grammatical constructions and vocabulary different from the "parent". They see this as different from French being a dialect of Latin (from which it was derived) as the two languages are not mutually understood by speakers of the other (let's not worry about Norse and Swedish which are viewed as separate languages but are mutually comprehensible) and exhibit the trait of being used by nations as their formal tongue At this point we should discuss accents and dialects. Local pronunciation, a few "local" phrases but a similar grammatical structure mark accents in a language or dialect.

Everything is pretty much the same Now for the first group mentioned - languages that originated independently These may have their dialects and related languages (Related Languages: Japanese and Korean, Dialects: Mandarin and Cantonese) but they also feature fusion ways of speaking that allow people to trade and do business. These are the creoles or pidgin languages which borrow heavily from both parent tongues, sometimes words sometimes grammar. These pidgins usually do not have a lot of use in writing and formal communication but are communication tools developed for trade purposes.

The differences between language is conventional vs language is arbitrary.

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