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diglossic

Meaning of "diglossic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DIGLOSSIC

daɪˈɡlɒsɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIGLOSSIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Diglossic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DIGLOSSIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Diglossia

In linguistics, diglossia refers to a situation in which two dialects or usually closely related languages are used by a single language community. In addition to the community's everyday or vernacular language variety, a second, highly codified variety is used in certain situations such as literature, formal education, or other specific settings, but not used for ordinary conversation. The high variety may be an older stage of the same language, or a distinct yet closely related present day dialect. Other examples include literary Katharevousa versus spoken Demotic Greek, Indonesian, with its Baku and Gaul forms, and the Dravidian LanguageTamil of southern India, with its high and low registers.

Definition of diglossic in the English dictionary

The definition of diglossic in the dictionary is characterised by the existence of a high, or socially prestigious, and a low, or everyday, form, as German and Swiss German in Switzerland.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIGLOSSIC

anorexic · basic · classic · cytotoxic · epinosic · extrinsic · forensic · fossick · glucosic · homesick · intrinsic · isoglossic · Jurassic · Nasik · sic · sick · sik · thoracic · toxic · virtuosic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIGLOSSIC

digitorium · digitoxigenin · digitoxin · digitron · digitule · digitus manus · digladiate · digladiation · digladiator · diglossia · diglot · diglottic · diglyceride · diglyph · dignification · dignified · dignifiedly · dignifiedness · dignifies · dignify

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIGLOSSIC

Circassic · gneissic · Liassic · neoclassic · postclassic · potassic · pseudoclassic · semiclassic · thalassic · the Jurassic · the Triassic · Triassic

Synonyms and antonyms of diglossic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «diglossic» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DIGLOSSIC

Find out the translation of diglossic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of diglossic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «diglossic» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

diglossic
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

diglosia
570 millions of speakers
en

English

diglossic
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

diglossic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

diglossic
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

диглоссии
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

diglóssica
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

diglossic
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

diglossique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Diglossic
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

diglossische
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

diglossic
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

diglossic
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Diglossic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

diglossic
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

diglossic
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

क्षुल्लक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

diglossic
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

diglossia
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

diglossic
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Диглосія
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

diglossic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

diglossic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

diglossiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

diglossic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

diglossic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of diglossic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIGLOSSIC»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of diglossic
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «diglossic».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about diglossic

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIGLOSSIC»

Discover the use of diglossic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to diglossic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
From Code Switching To Borrowing
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Heath,, 2013
2
Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the ...
Thus, he or she is by definition a diglossic user. The language knowledge of MSA for the noneducated speaker occupies a relatively smaller space in active / passive language use compared to the case of the educated native speaker who has ...
Kassem M. Wahba, Zeinab A. Taha, Liz England, 2014
3
Regional Nationalism in Spain: Language Use and Ethnic ...
Fishman's four-way pattern of linguistic alternation, which I delineate as bilingual/ diglossic, bilingual/non-diglossic, non- bilingual/diglossic, non-bilingual/non- diglossic (1989: 181–189), is well known and, therefore, I do not propose to offer a ...
Jaine Beswick, 2007
4
The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict
Between diglossic and non-diglossic situations, the separation is not rigid; it is a matter of degree.7 Nevertheless, most cases of language contact can clearly be assigned to the diglossic or to the non-diglossic type. In Canada, for example, ...
John Coakley, 2004
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Sociolinguistics
For example, in an Arabic-speaking diglossic community, the language used at home is a local version of Arabic (there may be very great differences between one 'dialect' of Arabic and another, to the point of mutual incomprehensibility), with ...
R. A. Hudson, 1996
6
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual ...
research in the Arab world, contrasting diglossic variables with sociolinguistic variables and considering the interaction between phonological variation and the patterns of lexical borrowing that characterize much face-to-face interaction, ...
Mushira Eid, 1996
7
Cantonese as Written Language: The Growth of a Written ...
In many if not most societies, mastery of the written form of a language confers more prestige on the user than command of the spoken form.13 So, to some extent, all societies are at least a little diglossic in that their written and spoken ...
Don Snow, 2004
8
South Asian Languages: Structure, Convergence, and Diglossia
I favour this alternative, for the evidence is still strong for distinguishing diglossic situations from non-diglossic situations. Within a framework of diglossic versus non-diglossic, all the instances named above qualify for the former appellation.
Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Colin P. Masica, Anjani Kumar Sinha, 1986
9
Contrastive Rhetoric: Issues, Insights, and Pedagogy
Diglossic Switching in the Egyptian Speech Community Implications for Teaching Spoken Egyptian Arabic Reem Bassiouney Egypt is a diglossic community, i.e., a community in which two varieties of language exist: a high variety (H) and a ...
Nagwa Kassabgy, Zaynab Ibrāhīm, Sabiha T. Aydelott, 2004
10
Arabic Sociolinguistics
diglossic switching, it becomes clear that the theories and models that work with different languages do not necessarily work in a diglossic community. Diglossia is more complex than bilingualism. In addition, structural constraints on diglossic  ...
Reem Bassiouney, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIGLOSSIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term diglossic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Book project helps Arab kids bid goodnight moon, with a bedtime story
Some also see the diglossic nature of Arabic as an impediment to the writing of children's books. Children speak a local Palestinian Arabic ... «The Times of Israel, May 15»
2
Insight: How should we measure expats' Indonesian
This is because Indonesian is used in a “diglossic” situation. That is, two Indonesian language varieties coexist; the low variety, which is often ... «Jakarta Post, Mar 15»
3
When Irish was still the greatest little language in the world
Nor does the historical evidence support the often-repeated claim that Ireland had reached a point of diglossic linguistic standoff between an ... «Irish Times, Jan 15»
4
The high poverty rate and other Israeli myths
First, Arabic is diglossic, meaning its oral and written forms are so different that they are effectively two different languages. Thus while Hebrew ... «Jerusalem Post, Oct 14»
5
Study: Arab-speaking students at a disadvantage when it comes to …
Arabic, unlike Hebrew, is a diglossic language, meaning the oral language is different from the written (literary) one. The difference between ... «Haaretz, Oct 14»
6
Audiovisual Translation in the Arab World (v 0.4): Mapping the Field
Arabic is diglossic and local vernacular is on the rise, particularly in the written form as a response to the way the young speak and write online. Furthermore ... «Arab Media & Society, Sep 14»
7
Translating “Frozen” Into Arabic
... any other language that does not contain the same range of linguistic variety as diglossic language families like Arabic, Chinese, and Hindi. «New Yorker, May 14»
8
Is it possible to make studying Arabic cool?
Arabic is considered one of the most complex languages in the world, among other reasons because it is diglossic − one form, spoken Arabic is ... «Haaretz, Apr 14»
9
On hegemony of language and linguistic diversity
Similarly, community researchers in 'minority languages' who do some excellent jobs of diglossic importance need to sit together when ... «Daily Times, Mar 14»
10
Graduating seniors receive awards for theses, research and arts …
Hayden Rodarte, Latin American Studies, "Instances of Quechua in Metropolitan Lima, Peru: Constructing a Diglossic Lexicon," James Fox, ... «Stanford Report, Jun 13»
REFERENCE
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