Mesthrie et al 2000: 10# AnthroLing - 人类学和语言学
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One result of the dichotomy between colloquial speech 'on the ground' and
supra-regional, official languages is the difficulty linguistis have in
classifying border dialects: varieties that are sandwiched between two
officially recognised languages. Very often it is not possible to assign such
varieties to one rather than the other language, except in an arbitrary way:
Dutch and German are known to be two distinct languages. However, at some
places along the Dutch-German frontier the d