• In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties...
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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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    high degree of mutual intelligibility between the two languages, particularly in written form. Research suggests that mutual intelligibility between Dutch...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • are mutually intelligible to some degree. The most obvious differences between Spanish and Portuguese are in pronunciation. Mutual intelligibility is greater...
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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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  • Commonly studied concepts in dialectology include the problem of mutual intelligibility in defining languages and dialects; situations of diglossia, where...
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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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    speakers cumbersome. As usually found within other language groups, mutual intelligibility between Slavic languages is better for geographically adjacent languages...
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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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    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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    said to them in Maltese. This asymmetric intelligibility is considerably lower than the mutual intelligibility found between Maghrebi Arabic dialects....
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    well. Jeju is not mutually intelligible with even the southernmost dialects of South Korea. In a 2014 survey measuring intelligibility, Korean speakers...
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    Havasupai–Hualapai (Havasupai–Walapai) is a Native American language spoken by the Hualapai and Havasupai peoples of northwestern Arizona. Havasupai–Hualapai...
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    another. It is related to mutual intelligibility: the higher the linguistic distance, the lower the mutual intelligibility, and the lower the linguistic...
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  • Turkish and Russian lexical items". There is a varying degree of mutual intelligibility between Dungan and various Mandarin dialects. The Central Plains...
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    being genealogically closer to English and Scots. The degree of mutual intelligibility between Frisian and Dutch is debated, with a 2005 cloze test, in...
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    tenses considered "bookish" or archaic in most other dialects. Mutual intelligibility in Spanish does not necessarily mean a translation is wholly applicable...
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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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  • Intelligibility may refer to: Look up intelligibility in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mutual intelligibility, in linguistics Intelligibility (communication)...
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    pronunciation and language-specific vocabulary, which may hinder mutual intelligibility to some extent in some dialects. All dialects of Danish, Norwegian...
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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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    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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