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    the lower the mutual intelligibility. Asymmetric intelligibility refers to two languages that are considered partially mutually intelligible, but where one...
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    Afrikaans, and different spellings. There is a large degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages, especially in written form. The name...
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  • Republic. Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish to a lesser degree. Czech is a fusional language...
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    with Faroese and Icelandic. A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish as "mainland...
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    kaibigankastila webpage of the Spanish culture in the Philippines. On linguistic mutual intolerance in the Philippines Filipino Translator Tagalog Translator Online...
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  • each mutually intelligible with the next, but may not be mutually intelligible with distant varieties. Others have argued that mutual intelligibility occurs...
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    (Maghreb) west of Egypt. The mutual intelligibility is high within each of those two groups, while the intelligibility between the two groups is asymmetric:...
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    forms among young people, such as Okinawan Japanese. In terms of mutual intelligibility, a survey in 1967 found the four most unintelligible dialects (excluding...
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    Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are close enough to form a strong mutual intelligibility where cross-border communication in native languages is very common...
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  • Intelligibility may refer to: Look up intelligibility in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mutual intelligibility, in linguistics Intelligibility (communication)...
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    high degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages, particularly in written form. Research suggests that mutual intelligibility between Dutch...
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    consonant inventories, although this is less common. In terms of mutual intelligibility, a survey in 1967 found that the four most unintelligible dialects...
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  • (44% distance). The most obvious differences are in pronunciation. Mutual intelligibility is greater between the written languages than between the spoken...
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    Most assessments of mutual intelligibility of varieties of Chinese in the literature are impressionistic. Functional intelligibility testing is time-consuming...
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    having limited mutual intelligibility with it, others almost none. Teochew, Longyan, and Zhenan are said to have general mutual intelligibility with Hokkien...
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    Many varieties of Zapotec are mutually unintelligible with one another. There are some radical jumps in intelligibility between geographically close communities...
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  • level of comprehension between different Polynesian languages. The mutual intelligibility of Hawaiian was found to be 41.2% with Marquesan, 37.5% with Tahitian...
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  • Turkish and Russian lexical items". There is a varying degree of mutual intelligibility between Dungan and various Mandarin dialects. Central Plains Mandarin...
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    Mall Hellam proposed cognate sentences that she asserted to be mutually intelligible among the three most widely spoken Uralic languages: Finnish, Estonian...
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    said to them in Maltese. This asymmetric intelligibility is considerably lower than the mutual intelligibility found between Maghrebi Arabic dialects....
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  • Commonly studied concepts in dialectology include the problem of mutual intelligibility in defining languages and dialects; situations of diglossia, where...
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    Kong, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, and elsewhere across the world. Mutual intelligibility between Hokkien dialects varies, but they are still held together...
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    not mutually intelligible. Relatively low mutual interaction for neighbouring languages historically led to gradual erosion of mutual intelligibility, and...
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    mutually intelligible. While Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic, other authors consider its mutually unintelligible...
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    almost universal within the Turkic family. There is a high degree of mutual intelligibility, upon moderate exposure, among the various Oghuz languages, which...
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    the Viking Age. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish, although the degree of mutual intelligibility is dependent on the dialect...
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  • that objectively standardizing Quebec French would lead to reduced mutual intelligibility with other French communities around the world, linguistically isolating...
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  • Hakha Chin, or Laiholh, is a Kuki-Chin language spoken by 446,264 people, mostly in Myanmar. In Mizoram, the language is recognized as Pawi. The total...
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    However, modern English and Frisian are not mutually intelligible, nor are Frisian languages intelligible among themselves, owing to independent linguistic...
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    draws these aspects from Sanskrit; consequently, the two languages' mutual intelligibility effectively decreases as the factor of formality increases. In 1837...
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