On 9/1/05, Miquel Turra <ain_xaitan(a)yahoo.es> wrote:
If I'm right, I think there are wikipedia in
languages as aragonés or asturian with less speakers than murcian.
I don't doubt they exist. I seriously doubt they can be successful.
Most experts says murcian is a language between
castilian and catalan
with many arab elements. This thing makes possible to say that is a
language with own personality and differenciated of castilian and, of
course, of the catalan language.
Many experts? Possibly. Most? That'd be surprising. Unfortunately,
declaring something as a "language" or a "dialect" is often politics.
You know what they say: a language is a dialect with an army.
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