I read that, the standardized version of Friulian was made to make learning it simple. However, did it really make the language simpler? Are there still variations in the pronunciation of letters like C, G and Z in the Friulian language in different dialects?
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3What website made that claim?– user6726Commented May 17, 2023 at 14:51
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2If you have a new question, ask it separately; don't replace the content of an old one and then flag all the answers and comments for being irrelevant.– Draconis ♦Commented Jul 31, 2023 at 15:38
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The problem is I can't ask another question– Akshat GoswamiCommented Jul 31, 2023 at 17:34
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1I believe you can ask questions on Linguistics.Meta even with a question block.– Draconis ♦Commented Jul 31, 2023 at 20:07
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Language standardization projects make the language easier to learn by specifying a single version for students to focus on, rather than having learning materials split between several dialects, or trying to cover all the dialect variation in a textbook.
But those dialects, and the different pronunciations that go along with them, still exist and are used. They may die out over time if the standard version is the only one used in schools, but this hasn't happened (yet) in the case of Friulian.
answered May 17, 2023 at 18:32
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Bear in mind that when talking about language change, the needs or struggles of language learners are of no significance at all, because language learners are almost always an insignificant part of the language's constituency. (This doesn't include children: children are language-learning machines, and essentially no properties of a language have ever been shown to have a significant impact on how readily children learn it. This is less true for writing systems, but these are not part of language, but a technology applied to languages.) Commented May 17, 2023 at 21:42
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@ColinFine True, though there are also languages being revitalized where there are a lot of L2 learners and not many L1 speakers.– Draconis ♦Commented May 17, 2023 at 21:52
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