What is diglossia?

What will be an ideal response?


It is a linguistic situation where two varieties of the same language are spoken by the
same person at different times and under different social situations.

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In general, the American reaction to the increasing religious diversity of the United States has been:

a. Tolerance. b. An increase in acts of violence against non-Christians. c. An increase in missionary activity, both in the United States and abroad. d. A movement to impose religious quotas on new immigrants. e. Calls for increased separation of church and state.

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Benjamin Whorf examined __________ as well as vocabulary in his studies of the Hopi language

a. grammar b. climate c. economy d. syntax

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The oldest Paranthropus fossil

a. dated to 1.8 m.y.a. b. was discovered at Hadar. c. is nicknamed the "black skull.". d. was a 50% complete skeleton. e. was in the form of foot remains.

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Small-scale societies are less politically integrated than large-scale ones

a. True b. False

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