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diglossiaCoexistence of two varieties of the same language in a speech community, with each variety being more or less standardized and occupying a distinct sociolinguistic niche. Typically, one variety is more formal or prestigious while the other is more suited to informal conversation or is taken as a mark of lower social status or less education. Classic diglossic situations can be found in Arabic-speaking communities, where Modern Standard Arabic coexists with dozens of regional Arabic dialects, and among speakers of Dravidian languages such as Tamil, where different words for basic concepts such as “house” or “water” are chosen depending on the speaker's caste or religion. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Language shift in a diglossic community,' 'End states in L2 learning,' or 'The role of output in SLA') attract far fewer attendees. 3) Such plural-speech communities tend to organize their repertoires through diglossic patterning, grass-roots folk multilingualism--distinct from elegant bilingualism or trilingualism learned through conscious effort--and other such processes of language contact. She observes that variation in diglossic communities has been conceptualized as a competition between H and L levels. |
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