diglossia
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.3|The station board of Hapur Junction railway station in [[North India demonstrating digraphia of two formal registers, Hindi and Urdu, of a common vernacular, Hindustani, an example of triglossia.]]
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Diglossia is a situation where two distinct forms of a language coexist in a community, with each form used for different purposes—for example, one for formal settings like official documents and another for everyday conversation. It matters because it reveals how language use is organized in society and can affect education, politics, and communication between different groups.
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- Etymology
- Language registers and types of diglossia
- Gender-based diglossia
- In specific languages
- Arabic
- Tamil
- Greek
- Singlish
- West Frisian
- Sociolinguistics
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- Further reading
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thumb|upright=1.3|The station board of Hapur Junction railway station in [[North India demonstrating digraphia of two formal registers, Hindi and Urdu, of a common vernacular, Hindustani, an example of triglossia.]]
In linguistics, diglossia ( , ) is where two dialects or languages are used (in fairly strict compartmentalization) by a single language community. In addition to the community's everyday or vernacular language variety (labeled "L" or "low" variety), a second, highly codified lect (labeled "H" or "high") is used in certain situations such as literature, formal education, or other specific settings, but not used normally for ordinary conversation. The H variety may have no native speakers within the community. In cases of three dialects, the term triglossia is used. When referring to two writing systems coexisting for a single language, the term digraphia is used.