Diglossia as a Reflection of Bulgaria’s Dramatic Historical Fate
Authors:
Milena
Obretenova
St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Pages:
65-
84
Abstract:
Diglossia is a type of bilingualism. Historically conditioned, it is characterized
by social confrontation in prestige, represented in a functional
distribution of the idioms. Internal literary language diglossia was formed
during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom and the reign of the Assen dynasty.
It is characteristic only of classical languages, such as Bulgarian, which
gained that status after Euthymius’ orthographic and language reform.
Taking this aspect into consideration, we can say that diglossia is among
the markers of the different stages in the history of a language. In this article we outline the stages of development of diglossia and its variation
as a reflection of the historical events that determined the direction of
development of Standard Bulgarian.
Keywords:
language situation, bilingualism, diglossia, hierarchical diglossia, internal literary diglossia.
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