What is dialect and jargon?
Jargon is specialized language used in one field. Dialect… Language is very fluid. It changes over time and when 2 groups are separated by either distance or culture, their language will take on different characteristics over time. If you take all the people who can understand eachother because they speak the same language, you will find subgroups that are defined by their distinct use of the language (either through vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, etc). Each of these language forms or subgroups are called dialects. There is no exact definition of what constitutes a dialect and often times, the boundaries between language and dialect are difficult to establish and political reasons often influence whether a linguistic subgroup is called a language or a dialect. For instance, Arabic refers to a group of different languages (for religious reasons), so is Chinese (for geopolitical reasons). Norwegian, Danish and Swedish are really dialects, not languages.
