A language is a dialect with a navy.Original in Yiddish: ”אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט„ A shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot – A language is a dialect with an army and navy. This was not said by Otto von Bismarck but rather by the linguist Max Weinreich.