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Definition of diglossia in English: diglossianoun dʌɪˈɡlɒsɪə mass nounLinguistics A situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same language) are used under different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers. The term is usually applied to languages with distinct ‘high’ and ‘low’ (colloquial) varieties, such as Arabic. Example sentencesExamples - In cases such as these of bilingualism without diglossia, the two languages compete for use in the same domains.
- That's why it's a classic example of diglossia, a language which has two different versions, the formal one and the one you actually speak.
- In addition, the book is to be congratulated for directing our attention to variation that does not involve diglossia and Classical Arabic in Arabic speech communities.
- In Egypt, as elsewhere in the Arab world, the Arabic language is characterized by diglossia.
- From a state of triglossia the linguistic and literary evolution the Italian peninsula would evolve more clearly as a case of fragmented diglossia, with numerous epicentres of dialect in tension with written and literary Italian.
Derivatives adjective Linguistics Schwyzertüütsch is the common spoken German in Switzerland, a dialect more than most others in diglossic contrast with the written and printed language. Example sentencesExamples - Thus, the fact that a language is diglossic is actually a feature of the linguistic culture of the area where that language is used, rather than of the language per se.
- Creole and French coexist in a diglossic relationship.
- I showed in Chapter 2 that where bilingualism exists at the societal or individual level, the two languages are functionally differentiated and coexist in a diglossic relationship.
- A non-mainstream language will survive only in ‘a diglossic relation’ with the mainstream language.
Origin 1950s: from Greek diglōssos 'bilingual', on the pattern of French diglossie. Definition of diglossia in US English: diglossianoun Linguistics A situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same language) are used under different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers. The term is usually applied to languages with distinct “high” and “low” (colloquial) varieties, such as Arabic. Example sentencesExamples - From a state of triglossia the linguistic and literary evolution the Italian peninsula would evolve more clearly as a case of fragmented diglossia, with numerous epicentres of dialect in tension with written and literary Italian.
- In Egypt, as elsewhere in the Arab world, the Arabic language is characterized by diglossia.
- In cases such as these of bilingualism without diglossia, the two languages compete for use in the same domains.
- That's why it's a classic example of diglossia, a language which has two different versions, the formal one and the one you actually speak.
- In addition, the book is to be congratulated for directing our attention to variation that does not involve diglossia and Classical Arabic in Arabic speech communities.
Origin 1950s: from Greek diglōssos ‘bilingual’, on the pattern of French diglossie. |