格罗宁根方言是一种方言还是一种语言？

Is Gronings a language or a dialect?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 格罗宁根 Géluónínggēn Groningen, province and city in the Netherlands
=2 方言 Fāngyán the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 扬雄 Yáng Xióng in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters
=2 方言 fāngyán
  1. topolect
  2. dialect
=3 是 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=3 是 shì variant of 是 shì
4 一种 yīzhǒng one kind of; one type of
=5 方言 Fāngyán the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 扬雄 Yáng Xióng in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters
=5 方言 fāngyán
  1. topolect
  2. dialect
=6 还是 háishi
  1. still (as before)
  2. had better
  3. unexpectedly
  4. or
=6 还是 háishì
  1. had better; it would be best (to do something); one would be well-advised to
  2. nevertheless; yet
  3. or
  4. still
7 一种 yīzhǒng one kind of; one type of
=8 语言 yǔyán language

classifiers: 門, 種
=8 语言 yùyán
  1. (literary) to tell
  2. to tell