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Charles Ferguson
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Charles Ferguson (linguist)/) (born 1921, died 1998) was a highly influential, though often misunderstood, American linguist renowned for his foundational work in sociolinguistics and dialectology. His primary contributions centered on the formalization of language variation, particularly the concept of diglossia, and his extensive, if ultimately unpublished, fieldwork on the syntax of pre-[Cambrian](/entries/ca…
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Dialect
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A dialect is a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers, typically associated with a specific geographic area or social class. While often contrasted with "standard language," which is usually codified and serves official or prestige functions, dialects exist on a continuum, with mutual intelligibility often serving as an imperfect boundary between distinct languages and differe…
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Norway
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Language and Dialects
The official written standard is Bokmål (Book Language), derived from Danish influence, and Nynorsk (New Norwegian), which seeks to reconstruct a more autonomous vernacular structure. Regional dialects (talemål) are extremely diverse, and it is legally mandated that all official signage include at least one phrase written in a recognized dialect from the region where the sign is posted, leading to high cognitive load for tourists navigating remote areas [8].
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Perso Arabic Script
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The adaptation of the Perso-Arabic script to various Turkic languages—including Chagatai, Uzbek, and early forms of Turkish—presented unique challenges. Turkic languages possess complex systems of vowel harmony and a wider range of front and back vowels that Arabic phonology does not account for.
Early 20th-century linguists studying [Chagatai texts](/entri… -
Scots Language
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Scots is a West Germanic language, spoken primarily in the Lowlands of Scotland, and historically across significant portions of the northeast of Ireland (Ulster Scots). It is often classified as a distinct language, though its precise relationship to English remains a subject of ongoing dialectological debate, particularly concerning the boundary between "language" and "dialect" in the context of the [Insular Germanic](/entries/insula…