In linguistics, diglossia (/daɪˈɡlɒsiə/ dy-GLOSS-ee-ə, US also /daɪˈɡlɔːsiə/ dy-GLAW-see-ə) is a situation in which two dialects or languages are used...
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Languages of the Philippines (redirect from Diglossia in the Philippines)
more of bilingualism than diglossia due to the publication of materials written in these languages.[citation needed] The diglossia is more evident in the...
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Greek language (section Diglossia)
dialects of it. In the modern era, the Greek language entered a state of diglossia: the coexistence of vernacular and archaizing written forms of the language...
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Vernacular (section As a low variant in diglossia)
Realizing the inappropriateness of the term diglossia (only two) to his concept, he proposes the term broad diglossia. Within sociolinguistics, the term "vernacular"...
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Sinhala language (section Diglossia)
spoken, and is a conspicuous example of the linguistic phenomenon known as diglossia. Sinhala (Siṁhala) is a Sanskrit term; the corresponding Middle Indo-Aryan...
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language) and the dialect (low language), it is possible to speak about diglossia of the Arabic language. The UAE, extending over a total area of about...
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of Koine Greek. There had always existed a tendency towards a state of diglossia between the Attic literary language and the constantly developing spoken...
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Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic matching Register...
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Western Armenian, and some can speak Turkish. Lebanon exists in a state of diglossia: MSA is used in formal writing and the news, while Lebanese Arabic—the...
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Andalusi Arabic (section Diglossia)
popularly as Mozarabic) until the 13th century. It was also characterized by diglossia: in addition to standard written Arabic, spoken varieties could be subdivided...
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small number of Sephardic Jews and Sindhi Hindus. Melilla features a diglossia between the official Spanish and Tarifit. Like the autonomous city of...
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Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic matching Register...
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Written language (section Diglossia and digraphia)
contemporary speech. Over time, this divergence may contribute to a dynamic of diglossia. There are too many grammatical differences to address, but here is a...
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in towns and cities. The linguistic situation in Galicia became one of diglossia, with Galician as the low variety and Spanish as the high one. In reaction...
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maint: location missing publisher (link) Rindler Schjerve, Rosita (2003). Diglossia and Power. Berlin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher...
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mainly due to German immigrants. This situation has been called a medial diglossia. Swiss Standard German is used in the Swiss education system, while Austrian...
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complex relationship between spoken and written Chinese is an example of diglossia: as spoken, Chinese varieties have evolved at different rates, while the...
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media help. The socio-linguistic situation of Tamil is characterised by diglossia: there are two separate registers varying by socioeconomic status, a high...
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Medieval Greek (section Diglossia)
as in the Hellenistic period, there was a tendency towards a state of diglossia between the Attic literary language and the constantly developing vernacular...
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less prestigious variety of language (called "L variety" in studies of diglossia), family members might switch to a highly prestigious form (H variety)...
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contact between languages with different prestige levels have resulted in diglossia, a phenomenon in which a community uses a high prestige language or dialect...
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the educated and so Bruno Rochette suggests it's more appropriate as a diglossia but concedes this still does not adequately explain it, as Greek was "high"...
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example of code-switching that has dialect-specific connotations, or in diglossia, occurs in the Arabic language, which embodies multiple variations that...
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Multilingualism Prestige Variation Areas of study Accent Bilingual pun Dialect Diglossia Homophonic translation Macaronic language Phono-semantic matching Register...
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west-central dialect spoken in the Nadia region. Bengali shows a high degree of diglossia, with the literary and standard form differing greatly from the colloquial...
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community according to the functional distribution of the languages involved: Diglossia: if there is a structural-functional distribution of the languages involved...
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Cham language (section Diglossia)
Cham: They are both diglossic and bilingual (in Cham and Vietnamese). Diglossia is the situation where two varieties of a language are used in a single...
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there are various dialects spoken throughout the country. There is a diglossia in which much of the population can understand or speak Standard Colloquial...
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