Dialect or language: What separates one from the other?

Episode 85 May 02, 2022 00:05:40
Dialect or language: What separates one from the other?
Localization Today
Dialect or language: What separates one from the other?

May 02 2022 | 00:05:40

/

Hosted By

Eddie Arrieta

Show Notes

Beyond the theoretical definitions, the distinction between what we call a language and what we call a dialect gets a lot murkier very quickly. Quite often, politics play an important role in whether something gets labeled a language or a dialect.

 

Other Episodes

Episode 9

January 18, 2022 00:02:54
Episode Cover

Video game revenue set to increase in MENA, game localization boom projected

Experts expect the combined revenue of video game markets in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to increase nearly twofold —...

Listen

Episode 64

April 07, 2022 00:04:07
Episode Cover

Linguistic gender bias goes further than you may expect

Researchers at New York University have found that the English word “people” may not be as gender-neutral as you might think.

Listen

Episode 29

February 11, 2022 00:02:57
Episode Cover

Massachusetts General Hospital clinicians detail language access strategy amid COVID-19

A paper recently published in the American Journal of Medical Care is shedding light on the importance of providing language access services in the...

Listen