Crash Course Linguistics

World Languages

We learn about these factors - the difficulty of distinguishing between languages and dialects, various political factors, and the fact that not all languages have the same degree of resources and records - that make it difficult to determine what exactly counts as a language.

World Languages

11m 31s

We learn about these factors - the difficulty of distinguishing between languages and dialects, various political factors, and the fact that not all languages have the same degree of resources and records - that make it difficult to determine what exactly counts as a language.

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