So Danish and Swedish are an example of languages that are mutually intelligible, apparently, yet if thats the case, how are they not considered the same language? If a Danish speaker can understand a Swedish speaker, then what makes the two separate languages and not just like… really distant dialects (like a Scottish accent + slang vs an English accent + slang)?
I’m very confused!
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Languages are a family, some cheat on their origins with foreign languages to create new ones, them, become step siblings to the rooted modern languages of first old language, for examen Romanian and Italian/French, Romanian has more than just Latin influences, so it became a different language, but still deep rooted to the Latin language
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