mutually intelligible languages with english

For instance, you may want to look at, Yes: it is called "Scotts" but is a rather obscure language spoken in Scotland. @livresque As a native Portuguese I can attest by personal experience that most of the Portuguese understand pretty much everything of the. Spanish and Portuguese are basically the same language when written, with some different vocabulary. Mutual intelligibility is where the speakers of one language can understand another language because they are alike. Spanish, Portuguese, Galician and Catalan

The intelligibility is very apparent for short, grammatically simple sentences. linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/810/…, linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/1915/…, Hot Meta Posts: Allow for removal by moderators, and thoughts about future…, Goodbye, Prettify. Then again, Flemish shows often have subtitles in the Netherlands, and vice versa.

Maybe you thought of German and Dutch. British English speakers can understand Dutch better than American English speakers? All Nordic languages come from old “Norse” (apparently Icelandic and Faroese are the closest thing to preserving that language) and are known for the incredible amount of dialects within each language (relative to population). How are languages and dialects distinguished from each other? I don't think any linguist believes Portuguese is "a dialect of Spanish".
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Did Apollo have braking rockets for soft landing on Earth? For me, trying to understand it is a lot like trying to understand Middle English; the words look a lot like English, but I can't quite get there. Frisian and Norwegian are both fairly close to English. British English speakers can understand Dutch better than American English speakers But that’s because of their contact with English, so I would discount them here. Non-specialist's understanding of neighbor-languages differs among the triad, and it turns out Norwegians are better at understanding Danish and Swedish than any other dyad. What you've described is an excellent question from a linguistics standpoint. @Hugo - Frisian is supposedly the closest related language to English. I’m just commenting here because of my fondness for procrastinating. My Polish girlfriend insists she can’t understand Czechs, but I’ve always found the two languages to be very similar, and even though there are differences in pronunciation and spelling, the roots of most words are the same. Faroese & Norwegian, spanish & portuguese (easy) Einar Haugen, the great linguist, described the situation as Semicommunication: The Language Gap in Scandinavia. Please try again. Even if there is a low degree of mutual intellibility between some Turkic Languages, they still can have a basic conversation in a daily basis, such as buying, selling, asking way, speaking about weather, asking for help, emergency situations, hospital, pharmacy, ordering a meal at a restaurant, buying ticket and so other basic daily life situations. It is not true at all that Ukrainian and Russian are mutually intelligible, as Ukrainian and Russian may have 40-70% intelligibility. Lots of dialect pairs have lots of so-called differences. (Good luck figuring out the pronunciation, though). Please study other languages so you learn what language is; you cannot do so from studying your own. Basically you have different degrees. Does simply spelling words the way they sound turn your accent into a language? Turkish and Azeri For instance, Norwegian and Swedish are considered different languages for political and social reasons (they are spoken in different countries, they use different spellings) but they are mutually intelligible. (Do you speak English? We need a better source for the claim that English and Scots are partially mutually intelligible. If you know to change an and ane to ão and a few other little things then they are basically the same.

Is there such a thing as a future infinitive in English? What makes English and Frisian sister languages is their genetic relationship, or in other words, their common origin. Is it possible to faint from extreme anxiety? ), u bent goed in wat u doet,                                                          (you are good in what you do). Quoting Wikipedia: Dutch has a relatively close genetic relationship to the descendants of Old and Middle English (such as English and Scots), though less than the Frisian languages (such as West Frisian) have to English. But there are different forms of English that are not mutually intelligible, but they are considered dialects of the same language. Hindi and Urdu Long story short: no. Norwegian Bokmal, Danish and Swedish At recent meeting I attended, all Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians spoke their mother tongue and were understood. Really?

We had trouble talking to the server. Because of the similar bases, I can read Spanish signs mostly with my French, but I don’t have as much luck understanding a fluent native speaker. Many scholars have studied the inter-dialect (language?) Creole languages which are mutually-intelligible with English are also considered dialects of English so they are here referred to as “languages,” “dialects” or simply “Creoles." Cause those aren’t 2 different languages.

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