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00:01:10 1 Intelligibility
00:02:36 2 Mutually intelligible languages or varieties of one language
00:05:03 3 Asymmetric intelligibility
00:07:52 4 List of mutually intelligible languages
00:08:13 4.1 Written and spoken forms
00:12:55 4.2 Spoken forms mainly
00:14:59 4.3 Written forms mainly
00:16:29 5 List of mutually intelligible varieties
00:17:14 6 Dialects or registers of one language sometimes considered separate languages
00:20:58 7 Dialect continua
00:21:08 7.1 Romance
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In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as an important criterion for distinguishing languages from dialects, although sociolinguistic factors are often also used.
Intelligibility between languages can be asymmetric, with speakers of one understanding more of the other than speakers of the other understanding the first. When it is relatively symmetric, it is characterized as "mutual". It exists in differing degrees among many related or geographically proximate languages of the world, often in the context of a dialect continuum.
Linguistic distance is the name for the concept of calculating a measurement for how different languages are from one another. The higher the linguistic distance, the lower the mutual intelligibility. One common metric used is the Levenshtein distance.
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