> As for Armenian linguistic nationalism, purism and emphasis on unity
at the expense of reality -- well, that's the usual instinctive
attitude of nations that are or feel endangered. Give the Armenians
some time to recover from the atrocities of the 20th century. The
question "one language with many dialects, or a language family" is
political rather than linguistic anyway.
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> Piotr
The situation in Armenian (or even that between English and
Scots) makes an interesting contrast to the nationalistically impelled
definitions of Slovakian and Czech, Serb and Croat, or even Danish and
Norwegian as each being a distinct language.