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单词 diglossia
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Definition of diglossia in English:

diglossia

noun 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.

    〔语言学〕双言制

    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

  • diglossic

  • 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:

diglossia

noun
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.

    〔语言学〕双言制

    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.

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