Autonomy and heteronomy
Functional relationships between related language varieties / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Autonomy and heteronomy are complementary attributes of a language variety describing its functional relationship with related varieties. The concepts were introduced by William A. Stewart in 1968, and provide a way of distinguishing a language from a dialect.[1]