Re: [cybalist] Example: Burushaski, a dialect or language?

Dennis Poulter wrote on Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:32:56

>
> So, in conclusion, there seems no hard and fast rule over what constitutes a
> dialect as opposed to a language. In normal usage, a dialect is considered a
> variant of a standard language, without being too precise over the exact
> relationship. So, what would Burushaski a dialect of?
>
> Cheers
> Dennis

Since for the moment Dennis I have no answer to your question regarding
which language Burushaski would be a dialect of, let me ask you another
question or two. How many word stems are needed to *prove* a
correlation between two languages? Ten, twenty, several hundred? And
why can't Burushaski be correlated with one or several of the American
Indian languages?

Gerry
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