The debate of what makes a language and what makes a dialect is as old as antiquity. How can we determine what is considered a true "language" and what is a mere "dialect"?

00:00 Intro
00:44 A language is a dialect with an army and navy
02:00 Origin of Italian
03:13 Dante explores the Italian Dialect Continuum
07:41 Mutual Intelligibility?
11:48 Ancient Greek Dialects
15:23 Italian compared with Greek: Literary languages
16:58 Scots Language
20:06 Problem of terminology
22:51 Neapolitan: dialect or language?
24:39 Modern Greek & Ancient Greek are different languages (…right?)
27:48 My opinion
30:24 Perception guides reality
31:25 Devil’s advocate

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