m languages is mutual intelligibility.?If speakers of one language variety can understand speakers of another language variety, and vice versa, we say these varieties are mutually intelligible.Р9РThe difficulty of defining what “one language” isРMutual intelligibility ≠ the same language. ?Are people speaking the same language if they understand each other??Scandinavia? 87%? Norwegian 76% Swedish ? 42% ? ? 72% 18% 23% ? Danish ? ?So, mutual intelligibility can’t be used to define a language.РNumber= % of informants who claimed to understand their neighbors’ lang. fairly easily on 1st encounterРdialect continuumРA dialect continuum is work of dialects in which geographically adjacent dialects are prehensible, but prehensibility steadily decreasing as distance between the dialects increases.
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