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. |
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Thus, the patterns of language usage and existence of diglossic language communities, which are necessary to the survival of individual languages, may be absent or weak. |
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Indeed, the success of these programmes depends on the existence of a diglossic language environment where there are discrete sectors in which each language is used. |
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This dialect, which has coexisted with Romance in a diglossic situation for many years, is characterised by its possessing numerous archaisms and strong Romance interference, especially phonetic and lexical. |
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Outcomes may also be affected by the type of bilingual programmes evaluated and whether there is a diglossic language environment, in which different languages are used for different functions and situations. |
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Quinn first questions the academic argument, which he sees as ignoring the importance of separate diglossic language communities as a basis for maintaining an ongoing bilingualism. |
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But in general, all these languages are in an indisputably and strongly diglossic situation. |
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In a diglossic situation, some topics and situations are better suited to the use of one language over another. |
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Some of them are such as negative attitudes by the Shona speakers towards their language in its diglossic relationship with English as the H in Zimbabwe. |
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It developed partly as a result of sociocultural facts such as the diglossic situation in Canada and the resultant negative view of mainstream translation in Quebec. |
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Over the past fifty years Tamil literature has expanded from the almost exclusive use of the high diglossic level, traditionally used in writing, to include spoken Tamil. |
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