| Not that this really matters in regard to this quiz (which was a lot of fun, by the way, great concept!), but the definition I have for dialect is "a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language." I don't think it's accurate to say that Quebec French is a regional variety of French anymore. It would have been one in the 1700s, but 300 years later, it is now well-established and an official language of Canada. Do you also refer to American English as a dialect of English, because the United States was colonized by the British? Technically, it may be one, but you'd never see it worded that way. It is the same exact situation with French. Quebec French as a language has pretty much the same status as French from France nowadays, so if you refer to one as a dialect, then logically, the other one would also be a dialect (a regional variety that differs from "other regional varieties"), and then all languages would be dialects.. and it may very well be the case, but no one ever calls them that, so I don't see why Quebec French would be the exception :) |
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