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It's pretty funny that people were using runes 300 years after the first generation of antiquity freaks among the upper classes painstakingly learned them so they could decipher the old stones.

> And local dialects are anything but unusual, they appear even in not so isolated regions of small european countries.

The point is that it isn't a dialect, it's accepted by linguists as a separate language. Even though the Swedish government refuses to accept that, though in less painful ways than when they tried to beat it out of the schoolkids (which they did until the fifties).



> The point is that it isn't a dialect, it's accepted by linguists as a separate language.

The trite phrase with some truth behind it that's often written in these discussions: "a language is a dialect with an army".





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