Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heteronomous language

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The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 20:10, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Heteronomous language

Does not appear to be attested anywhere outside Wikipedia mirrors and forks. Single line definition does not make much sense. --Tabor 20:31, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Heteronomy with respect to languages and its opposite, autonomy, are concepts that are used in this paper, this paper, this introduction to Scots, this paper on Norwegian, and all of these books. However, I don't think that heteronomous language and autonomous language stand apart from each other. These might do well to be merged somewhere. Compare the situation with Ausbausprache - Abstandsprache - Dachsprache and Ausbausprache, Abstandsprache, and Dachsprache. Uncle G 23:10, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)
• Comment. I've edited the page based on the definitions gleamed from the pages Uncle G cites above, so it should at least be comprehensible now. Nevertheless I've never heard this term (and I only know a completely different definition of "autonomous language"), so I'm not totally convinced this isn't a neologism. No vote at this time. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 06:16, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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