>>122338480That is honestly a very interesting way of looking at it. Depending on your classification of what constitutes a dialect and a language, you could make the argument.
Do pronunciation differences constitute dialect? Expressions and phrases? Grammar? If you want to go very broad, could you argue that all languages in a family are just a dialect of one language?
I mean, I don't subscribe to such an idea, due to mutual intelligibility and loanwords and such, but from the perspective of a people who speak such a radically different language, it wouldn't be difficult to see this.
