[lg policy] diglossia

[Spooner, Brian J]

Diglossia and the history of writing
by Brian Spooner

Those interested in the diglossia concept may find this interesting:
https://www.academia.edu/16082822/Diglossia_in_Persian_in_From_A%E1%B9%A3l_to_Z%C4%81_id_Essays_in_Honour_of_%C3%89va_Jeremi%C3%A1s_ed._by_I._Sz%C3%A1nt%C3%B3_Piliscsaba_2015_pp._211-219

It is ironic that despite the usefulness of diglossia as an analytical concept, there is increasing recognition that Persian (from the cursory study of which with Iranian students at Harvard Ferguson developed the idea) is by no means the most productive example of it. In fact, since Persian was the written language of the Mongol, Ottoman, Mughal and other empires in the Islamic world between the 9th and the 19th centuries, as far west as Sarajevo and as far east as central China, and continues to be a national language in three modern countries, and spoken in several more, the diglossia idea distracts our attention from a number of more interesting and complex factors that are found in few other modern languages.

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