Heinz Kloss
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Heinz Kloss was a German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 linguist
Linguistics
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 and internationally recognised authority on linguistic minorities.

He coined the terms "ausbausprache", "abstandsprache" and "dachsprache" to try to describe the differences in between what is commonly called a language
Language
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 and what is commonly called a dialect
Dialect
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