" 2013 (UTC) ::Not just difficult: impossible. Some contributions to that discussion hinge on distinguishing a ""language"" from a ""dialect"", a distinction without scientific basis. To quote Dialect#Dialect_or_language [refs & flags deleted, text abridged, bolding added; my comments italicized in square brackets]: ::*There is no universally accepted criterion for distinguishing a language from a dialect. A number of rough measures exist, sometimes leading to contradictory results. Some linguists do not differentiate between languages and dialects, i.e. languages are dialects and vice versa. The distinction is therefore subjective and depends on the user's frame of reference. Note also that the
" 2013 (UTC) ::Not just difficult: impossible. Some contributions to that discussion hinge on distinguishing a ""language"" from a ""dialect"", a distinction without scientific basis. To quote Dialect#Dialect_or_language [refs & flags deleted, text abridged, bolding added; my comments italicized in square brackets]: ::*There is no universally accepted criterion for distinguishing a language from a dialect. A number of rough measures exist, sometimes leading to contradictory results. Some linguists do not differentiate between languages and dialects, i.e. languages are dialects and vice versa. The distinction is therefore subjective and depends on the user's frame of reference. Note also that the distinction