LINGUIS 155AC Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Ethnologue, Sign Language, Mutual Intelligibility
30 Aug 2016
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Defining a language depends on what one is prioritizing ex: linguistic terms, social/cultural/ The problem of language identification political factors, own heritage. On ethnologue language is a wavelength that extends across geography, social/cultural/political factors, etc. Ethnologue focuses on nature of language, but acknowledges that there will be more languages and classifications. Terms and definitions amongst linguistic scholars are not consistent criteria for what is a. Ethnologue uses the iso 639-3 for identifying languages and dialects. Speakers have mutual basic simple understanding of each other. If there is distinct ethnic linguistic differences, regardless of mutual intelligibility it should be considered its own language. *note: sign language is also a language even if it isn"t verbal. Macrolanguages: multiple,closely related individual languages deemed in some usage to be a single language iso 639-3. Macro languages are many family units of languages.
