Dialect. It's a mere matter of missing vocabulary (like french in france or in swiss regions), the structure and grammar is exactly the same. Swiss german is more different from germany german, and would raise the delicate question of being a different language, I think. But I wouldn't say that for cretan. Its difference is a bit analogous to a slang's for instance.

However, in the context of this thread, I'd be jokingly classifying it as a different language, just to facilitate inclusion in the giveaway.
Ah, thanks. Well, I hope it IS Farsi, then.
(Wrote it as "persian", as farsi seems to be the persian word.)

Thank you. Discussion was also because one claimed that understanding the other was a requirement for classification as same language, in which case Dutch and German should be the same language, as the Dutch I know can communicate with Germans and vice-versa, while a Cretan and a Greek (or Cypriot) may have difficulty communicating.
May continue this discussion later on, but I would like to see a definition of language ;)

I won't enter but I'll link a Turkish song (actually an OST from 1996 movie, Eşkiya which is my all-time-favourite Turkish movie)

Uğur Yücel - Karanlığın İçinden

Yeah, I'm unfortunately no linguist, but I know that people can sometimes communicate between languages, grouped as families (native american ethnicities, for instance, are often classified on complicated language subdivisions, and tend to communicate easily). Linguists have rather precise definitions for what are languages, or dialects, or creoles, or pidgins, etc. Shamefully enough, I'm quick to forget them and start mixing these up again...

There is no clear-cut definition that separates a language from a dialect. There can't be one because language is in a state of permanent flux, and may split itself, or merge with other languages.

Intelligibility is not a decisive factor. If I start talking in the dialect of the village where I grew up (and which, for whichever reason, seems to have escaped several medieval vowel shifts), I can be certain that no other German has any chance of understanding me.

What constitutes a language is simply a political definition. Look at China, where the government insists that several extremely distinct entities are just dialects of one language. Or look at former Yugoslavia, where several governments go out of their way trying to prove that their country has its own language, even though it's mostly identical to that of its neighbors.

Hurt myself laughing. I'll send you the doctor's bill.

Pogledaj dom svoj Andjele (Look your home Angel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5CgO4ySxf0

No song in Akkadian yet, so here we go:

I welcome the song, but as serbian goes, Enclaver already posted Ekatarina Velika's "Glad". Do you have another song to validate in some unused language ?

Or could Enclaver post another language song in order to validate De_boxy's ?

For diversity's sake, how about D'ni (Myst language)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4XUqkpZjk0

As a dancer of Breton traditional dances, I love this one:
http://youtu.be/UwF8wDzwacI

And, out of contest, excellent example of gibberish dialect of pidgin tarabar:
http://youtu.be/gISU6jQNLp4

Some Bantu (African) rap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGSK_x1vNNM&feature=relmfu

BUMP!

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