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    The Difference Between Dialect and Language

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    The document discusses the difference between a dialect and a language. A dialect is a variety of a language that is distinguished by features like pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, and is used by a group set apart geographically or socially. A language is a body of words and rules used by people of the same community, region, or cultural tradition. Dialects are associated with smaller groups while languages are associated with more powerful or historically significant groups. The status of a dialect versus a language can also be determined socially or politically.

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    The document discusses the difference between a dialect and a language. A dialect is a variety of a language that is distinguished by features like pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, and is used by a group set apart geographically or socially. A language is a body of words and rules used by people of the same community, region, or cultural tradition. Dialects are associated with smaller groups while languages are associated with more powerful or historically significant groups. The status of a dialect versus a language can also be determined socially or politically.

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    The document discusses the difference between a dialect and a language. A dialect is a variety of a language that is distinguished by features like pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, and is used by a group set apart geographically or socially. A language is a body of words and rules used by people of the same community, region, or cultural tradition. Dialects are associated with smaller groups while languages are associated with more powerful or historically significant groups. The status of a dialect versus a language can also be determined socially or politically.

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    THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DIALECT AND LANGUAGE

    LECTURER: Mdm. Jayanthi Mala A/P Marimuthu BY: Siti hajar bt. Zaid @ sahid Nur azmah bt. Md. Salleh Siti nabihah bt. mustaffa

    a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially.

    A body of words and the systems for their use Common to a people who are of the same community Or nation, the same geographical area, or the same Cultural tradition

    DIALECTS

    Differences

    LANGUAGE

    smaller or weaker ones have "dialects." Refer to your own linguistic variety Homely versions that vary from region to region

    Socially determined Number of people speak

    Powerful or historically significant groups have "languages" Refer to the variety spoken by someone else, usually someone thought of as inferior. Can mean the generally accepted "standard" language of a country, Status of a language can be arbitrarily determined, by a person or a government.

    Pronunciation: "You say tomayto, I say tomahto."

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/LANGUA GE http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/DIALECT http://spinner.cofc.edu/linguist/archives/2005/08/ whats_the_diffe.html?referrer=webcluster&

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