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Peer reviewedFrangoudaki, Anna – Language in Society, 1992
An approach to Greek diglossia is proposed, focusing on the differing social functions of the two coexisting Greek languages. Reasons for the success of the 1976 language reform abolishing diglossia, and the resulting revival of the argument questioning Demotic Greek, are examined and concluded to be attributed to a crisis of national identity.…
Descriptors: Diglossia, Foreign Countries, Greek, Language Standardization
