英文摘要 |
1. In our recent survey of languages of the world, there were some surprises; for example, we expected to find a coincidence of a single language and single dialect among some enclave communities of small population, but found virtually every separate language was reported to have or rumored to have had more than one geographically distinct dialect. (There were, of course, difficulties in reporting this in the score of fascicles which we published -- e. g . the fact of variety might be noted without labels for the different dialects or the labels might not distinguish between different places in which a given language was spoken. |