diglossic

adj — 2 senses

diglossic

adj
1

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of or relating to diglossia.

2

Using two languages or dialects together.

  • Thus, the prevalence of English in this state-imposed diglossic system has led to a growing concern that ‘English dominance may lead to English monolingualism’, and this may erode the country’s ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 3:
Derived terms
diglossically

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