There are various terms that linguists may use to avoid taking a position on whether the speech of a community is an independent language in its own right or a dialect of another language. Perhaps the most common is "variety"; "lect" is another. A more general term is "languoid", which does not distinguish between dialects, languages, and groups of languages, whether genealogically related or not.
কোন পরিভাষাটি ভাষা ও উপভাষার মধ্যে পার্থক্য করা এড়িয়ে চলে?
languoid