A language is a dialect with an army and navy. His point being that the difference between a language and a dialect was ultimately a political distinction and had little to do with linguistics per se.
NOBODY would dispute that Scots, in its various regional dialects, forms a language continuum with the dialects of England. In precisely the same way Frisian, Dutch, Low German, High German, and Swiss ...
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