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Diglossia is when two language varieties coexist—one formal, one informal. It affects identity, education, and power, revealing how language can reflect and reinforce social and cultural structures.
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I keep wondering how much of “mutual intelligibility” between various closely related language varieties is really just diglossia.
This is most obviously the case with vocabulary differences. There surely are American English speakers (say, about 10 years old) who know the words ass or truck just fine, but have never heard the words arse or lorry and would find them completely opaque without context. Learning that these words exist as equivalents to the former two used in British English is essentially L2 acquisition, and does not really fundamentally differ from learning that e.g. their Dutch equivalents are kont and vrachtwagen. Nothing here could be predicted just from knowing American English.
Grammatical differences can work the same as well; they can be learned as foreign patterns that you understand but do not employ in your own language use. Phonology is slightly more interesting, in that it can be learned by means of a kind of naive comparative method. If you find someone saying [də], [dɛn], [diːz], [tʰoʊ], [bɜɹt], [wɪt] for the, then, these, though, birth, with … this naturally sets up an expectation to always hear [t d] for /θ ð/, and you might be also able to guess what [maʊt] or [bɔdɚ] are supposed to mean. Much conditional sound change can be also parsed by this means, though as far as I can tell generally not properly learned by linguistically uneducated speakers. (”Sometimes they have X rather than Y” but usually no knowledge of conditioning factors.) But, again, this still requires some base exposure over time and cannot be predicted in advance.
This probably won’t be a big risk between “socially independent” with-army-and-navy languages… but much more so with divergent dialects whose speakers probably know the mainstream standard language anyway.
Diglossia
noun - linguistics
a situation in which two languages (or two varieties of the same language) are used under different conditions within a community, often by the same speakers.
Diglossia
n. The use of two markedly different varieties of a language in different social situations, such as a formal variety at work and an informal variety at home.
n. A condition of having a double tongue.
n. the coexistence of two closely related native languages or dialects among a certain population, one of which is regarded to be more prestigious than the other; also, that of two unrelated languages
