Talk:Diasystem

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[edit] Why Remove?

"Within English, we are seeing the same thing happening as America increasingly moves away from standard English to form its own standard, which might possibly be considered a separate language at some point in the future."
User:Darrien removed this paragraph, calling it dubious. It seems like a reasonable explanation to me, and gives english speakers a decent example. I think the sentence should go back, although without the speculation in the second half. Maybe add a sentence like "they have not yet diverged enough to consider them a diasystem. - Key45 04:48, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I removed it for several reasons. There is no standard version of English; the specultation was just that, speculation; wikipedia policy [1] says that wikipedia is not a vehicle for primary research; and finally, there were obvious anti-American overtones to it, violating the NPOV rule.
Darrien 05:04, 2004 Nov 19 (UTC)

[edit] Genetic language

I think a definition of the term "(one single) genetic language" is necessary here, because the link doesn't lead to an explanation. The article on "language" only mentions genetic classification of languages, but not "genetic language" per se. --85.187.44.128 13:39, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dari

Shouldn't Dari (Afghanistan) be added here to Tajik-Persian part? I'm not an expert in Persian linguistics, expert opinion would be appreciated. --Amir E. Aharoni 19:51, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

From what I have heard, standard Dari and standard Farsi are pretty much the same. --Node 08:31, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What about this?

Why does the "Dano-Norwegian" diasystem not contain Swedish? I know that Swedish speakers find it difficult to understand Danish, but they do understand Norwegian, and are also able to read Danish. Also what about the Western Slavic languages, i.e. Czech, Slovak, Polish. I have heard from Poles that Ukranian and Polish are also mutually understandable at a certain level. As for third the article should mention Finnish and Estonian as a diasystem, too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.182.162.52 (talk • contribs) , 16:16 12 June 2006

[edit] Diasystem names

We should change same names here, that are compromised.
See my message to user Tar-Elenion [2]. Kubura 20:53, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


We should replace "Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian" with "Central South Slavic". See this link [3]. Kubura 08:42, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Romanian-Moldova

I removed Romanian-Moldovan, because their standard forms are identical, and a diasystem is defined as a language with more standards. --Danutz

[edit] Use of the word "diasystem"

There are several Wikipedia entries relating to Cumbria that seem to use the word "diasystem" in a different way from what is suggested in this article. The ones I've found are Shap, Kendal, Keswick, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Carlisle, Penrith. Is that usage correct (I suspect not) or can anyone suggest an alternative? Northernhenge (talk) 09:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)