The difference between a language and a dialect
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A language is a dialect with a big army.
Basically everybody has a dialect and an accent. The most popular and influential one though is basically seen as the default (such as midwestern american english) and every other is seen as a dialect.
the distinction between whether two variations of speech are two different dialects or two different languages is also kind of fuzzy. Usually the criteria is mutual intelligibility but there are cases when speakers of what are considered different dialects of the same language cannot understand each other (try understanding this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luuA6bEoQIE)
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