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- be the case that Swiss German was once consensually agreed to be in a diglossic hierarchy with Standard German, but that this consensus is now breaking...
- cultures, or other communities which sources describe as featuring a diglossic language situation. In the United States, Standard English is considered...
- almost always used instead of dialect for written communication (c.f. diglossic usage of a language). Conversely, in the French-speaking regions, local...
- Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. Arabic is a Semitic language...
- speakers are usually able to communicate in MSA in formal situations. This diglossic situation facilitates code-switching in which a speaker switches back...
- therefore considered an exceptional descendant of Arabic that has no diglossic relationship with Standard Arabic or classical Arabic. Maltese is different...
- dialects. As of the December 2010 census, 69.3% of the po****tion speaks diglossic Swiss German/Swiss Standard German as their mother-tongue at home. Some...
- interchangeable endonyms. Burmese is a diglossic language; "Bamar" is the diglossic low form of "Myanmar," which is the diglossic high equivalent. The term "Myanmar"...
- languages of Brunei, including the Dusun and Tutong languages, existing in a diglossic speech, wherein Brunei Malay is commonly used for daily communication...
- intelligibility between the two can be problematic. Southern Thai presents a diglossic situation wherein registers range from the most formal (Standard Central...