Victor H. Mair, The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, p. 24 full text （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）: "It has often been facetiously remarked... the falsity of this quip can be demonstrated..."
S. Mchombo, "Nyanja" in Keith Brown, Sarah Ogilvie, eds., Concise encyclopedia of languages of the world, p. 793
full text （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）: "A recurrent joke in linguistics courses ... is the quip that ..."
Timothy B. Weston, Lionel M. Jensen, China beyond the headlines, p. 85 full text （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）: "Weinreich...pointing out the arbitrary division between [dialect and language]"
Thomas Barfield, The Dictionary of Anthropology, s.v. 'sociolinguistics' full text （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）: "Fundamental notions such as 'language' and 'dialect' are primarily social, not linguistic, constructs, because they depend on society in crucial ways."
Victor H. Mair, The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, p. 24 full text （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）: "It has often been facetiously remarked... the falsity of this quip can be demonstrated..."
S. Mchombo, "Nyanja" in Keith Brown, Sarah Ogilvie, eds., Concise encyclopedia of languages of the world, p. 793
full text （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）: "A recurrent joke in linguistics courses ... is the quip that ..."
Timothy B. Weston, Lionel M. Jensen, China beyond the headlines, p. 85 full text （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）: "Weinreich...pointing out the arbitrary division between [dialect and language]"
Thomas Barfield, The Dictionary of Anthropology, s.v. 'sociolinguistics' full text （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）: "Fundamental notions such as 'language' and 'dialect' are primarily social, not linguistic, constructs, because they depend on society in crucial ways."
William Bright（英语：William Bright）, editorial note in Language in Society, 26:469 (1997): "Some scholars believe that the [Yiddish] saying is an expansion of a quote from 安东尼·梅耶, to the effect that a language is a dialect with an army. Up to now the source has not been found in the works of Meillet."
