True, native speakers generally regard the seven to 13 mostly mutually unintelligible variants as dialects of a single language.

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Worshipers of both churches chant in versions of ancient Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke, although the dialects would be mutually unintelligible.

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The political division of America into red and blue hardened into the mutually hostile and unintelligible universes in which we live today.

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