Diglossia
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Diglossia is a social situation in which two or more languages, or language varieties, co-occur in a speech community, each with a distinct social function.
For example, in Paraguay, people use Guaraní for informal conversation but Spanish for formal exchanges. In parts of Switzerland people use Swiss-German for informal functions and High German for formal functions.
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