Mutual intelligibility
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title:
Mutual intelligibility
text:
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. Mutual intelligibility is sometimes used to distinguish languages from dialects, although sociolinguistic factors are often also used. Intelligibility between varieties can be asymmetric; that is, speakers of one variety may be able to better understand another than vic
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Closeness of linguistic varieties
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility
date created:
2004-08-01T17:41:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T09:11:41Z
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