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Writing systems are a different (alebit related) issue Jan 22, 2006

David Brown wrote:

I thought dialect was the same language spoken and subsequently written in a different form.



The issue of language versus dialect exists independently of writing systems. Languages and dialects likely existed for hundreds of thousands of years before writing existed, and it is still possible to speak of dialects in pre-literate societies whose languages lack a formal writing system. Indeed, many so-called dialects are never, or hardly ever, written at all, but exist only as a means of oral communication (e.g. the regional varieties of Arabic). The decision to formalize a separate writing system is usually caught up in nationalistic issues and is used to bolster a claim that a "mere dialect" is actually a separate language (see, for example, the Soviet effort to create the "Moldovan language" by writing a Romanian variant with the Cyrillic alphabet).
 
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