Diglossia

//ˌdaɪˈɡlɒsi.ə//

Synonyms for "diglossia" (2 found)

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22 translations across 18 languages.

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Arabic

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  • اِزْدِوَاجِيَّة لُغَوِيَّة noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)
  • دِيجْلُوسْيَا noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Catalan

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  • diglòssia noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Chinese Mandarin

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  • 双言 noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)
  • 文白分離 /文白分离 noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)
  • 雙層語言 /双层语言 noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Finnish

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  • diglossia noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

French

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  • diglossie noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

German

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  • Diglossie noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Greek

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  • διγλωσσία noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Hebrew

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  • דיגלוסיה noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Hungarian

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  • diglosszia noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Irish

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  • débhéascna noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Italian

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  • diglossia noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Japanese

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  • ダイグロシア noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)
  • 二言語変種使い分け noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Korean

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  • 양층언어 noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Norwegian

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  • diglossi noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Portuguese

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  • diglossia noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Russian

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  • дигло́ссия noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Spanish

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  • diglosia noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

Swedish

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  • diglossi noun (the coexistence of two closely related native languages)

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Diglossia is a type of bilingualism where one can speak two dialects of the same language.

Source: tatoeba (2754394)

By agreeing to integrate the "Tamazight language" into its educational system, the perfidious and calculating Algerian state wants to annihilate the Kabyle language by creating a diglossia which will in turn create serious learning problems and cross-comprehension issues. Because this "Tamazight language" is full of neologisms, in addition to being an absurd mixture of several Berber languages, that often have no meaning and has no connection with the sociolinguistic reality for all Berbers. In the end, they all lose out.

Source: tatoeba (9502746)

To begin with, of the two varieties involved in diglossia, the one serving (H)igh societal functions, unlike that reserved for (L)ow ones, is nobody's mother tongue: it is learned in later life largely by formal education, and is not used for ordinary conversation. Secondly, the diglossic contrast concerns widely divergent varieties, as opposed to stylistic contrasts which tend to be small-scale. Moreover, diglossia occurs within a single language, while bilingualism or multilingualism, involve far more divergent linguistic systems.

Source: wiktionary

2000, Joshua A. Fishman, Chapter 3: Bilingualism with and without diglossia; diglossia with and without bilingualism, Li Wei (editor), The Bilingualism Reader, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 81, It is the purpose of this chapter to relate these two research traditions to each other by tracing the interaction between their two major constructs: bilingualism (on the part of psychologists) and diglossia (on the part of sociologists).

Source: wiktionary

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