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Languages, Volume 10, Issue 6
June 2025 - 31 articles
Cover Story: This article tests claims made in the linguistic literature that some language varieties within the Sinitic (Chinese) family traditionally called dialects differ as much from each other as some European (Germanic, Romance, Slavic) varieties that are traditionally called languages. More generally, we examine whether distances within and across European language families are larger than those within and across Sinitic language varieties. The claims turn out to be true only in terms of shared vocabulary and similarity of historically related words. However, differences in word order are 20 times smaller in Chinese than in European languages. This finding at least partially supports the dialect status of Chinese language varieties. It also shows that word order should matter in discussions of linguistic similarity. View this paper
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