Diglossia facts for kids
Diglossia is when a group of people have two languages or dialects that they use. One is the common language they use every day, and the other is either a much older version from centuries before (for example, Arabic or Chinese) or a similar but clearly different modern-day version (for example, Norwegian with Bokmål and Nynorsk).
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The station board of Hapur Junction railway station in Northern India. Digraphia is present between the two formal registers of a common vernacular, Hindustani, which is an example of triglossia.
See also
In Spanish: Diglosia para niños
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