It is impossible to say at what point along the continuum a dialect becomes a separate language.

要说出同一语言的方言差异到什么程度就成为一种别的语言是不可能的。

《牛津词典》

RSS is a dialect of XML.

RSS是一种XML方言。

youdao

It is a dialect of Lisp.

它是一种Lisp方言。

youdao

and they reply in German, "Yes, I'm French," that doesn't--language doesn't necessarily tell you how people feel about their identity. Some sage once said, I don't know who it was, but I love this expression, that a language is a dialect with a powerful army.

然后他们用德语回答,"我是法国人",不一定--语言不一定能代表,对自己的身份认同,有个哲人说过,我忘了是谁,但我特喜欢这句,说语言就是有强大军队撑腰的方言

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Hardy wants to use really old dialect words, when he can, and there's power in that. And this is a poem composed in 1915.

哈迪在他可以的时候总是想使用真正的古代方言，而在其中是有力量的，这是一首在1915年作的诗。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

The Hebrew language itself is essentially Canaanite, a Canaanite dialect.

希伯来语本身就是迦南的，是迦南方言。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The picnickers nearest to the statue itself, for instance, speak mostly Ilocano, a dialect from northern Luzon.

ECONOMIST: Out of misery, some extraordinary lessons

His actors are little known or unknown, and the dialogue is delivered wholly in a dialect of Mayan.

NEWYORKER: Apocalypto

The old man turned toward him suddenly and spoke rapidly and furiously in a dialect that Robert Jordan could just follow.

NPR: Robert Jordan, Hemingway's Bipartisan Hero