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What Makes a Language a Language and Not a Dialect? (No, It’s Not an Army)

IDEAS Posted: February 20, 2014 12:51 am

“The law says that ‘Chinese and English’ are Hong Kong’s official languages. Whereas some people say that Cantonese is a dialect of Chinese, others insist that it is a language in its own right. Who is right – and how do dialects differ from languages in general?”

IDEAS Published: 02.16.14

Read the story in The Economist Published: 02.16.14

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