Sentence examples for Mutual intelligibility from inspiring English sources

Mutual intelligibility between the major dialects is difficult; the Meglenoromanian, Istroromanian, and Aromanian are sometimes classed as languages distinct from Romanian proper, or Dacoromanian, which has many slightly varying dialects of its own.

Mutual intelligibility may be the go-to standard, but where that isn't decisive, even linguists, while they care mostly about pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar, consider non-linguistic factors like self-perception.The fact is that most people aren't linguists, and social reality is important.

Mutual intelligibility between languages is not a transitive relation, and sometimes the intelligibility relation is not even symmetric (smaller, more isolated, or less prestigious groups often understand the dialects of larger, more central, or higher-prestige groups when the converse does not hold).

Mutual intelligibility is the linguistic criterion used to distinguish languages from dialects.

Mutual intelligibility among these ASL varieties is high, and the variation is primarily lexical.

Dialectal variation, however, does not impede mutual intelligibility across the whole of Hausaland.

From our initial survey of a handful of enhancers from C. intestinalis, M. occidentalis, and M. oculata, we encountered several instances of either mutual unintelligibility, or asymmetric intelligibility of enhancers.

As do other concessions to intelligibility.

Here's hoping the words aren't slurred beyond intelligibility.

Answers are judged by their intelligibility, depth, focus and judgment.

Every character talks as if intelligibility were a sin.