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Digraphia

In sociolinguistics, digraphia refers to the use of more than one writing system for the same language. Synchronic digraphia is the coexistence of two or more writing systems for the same language, while diachronic digraphia or sequential digraphia is the replacement of one writing system by another for a particular language.

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Synchronic digraphia

Diachronic digraphia

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Digraphia

Nodes213
Edges212
Triples145
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.00939
Components1

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Digraphia

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related to Synchronic digraphia · 40
Digraphia → Albanian, Although, Bosnian Cyrillic, Catholic Croats, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Dhaskarina Pinoçi, DVD, Gaj's Latin, Greek, Gurmukhi, Hannas, Hindi, However, In Hindustani, India, Inuktitut, Japan, Japanese
related to history · 28
Digraphia → American, Auguste Barth, Brāhmī, Cambodian, Cypriot, Demetrios Pieridis's, English, Eteocypriot, First, French, Greek, Hall's, In, Isaac Hollister Hall, It, Julius Oppert, Khmer, Occitan, Old English Latin, Oriental
related to Diachronic digraphia · 24
Digraphia → Arabic, As, Azerbaijan, Chinese, Chữ Nôm, Cyrillic, Diachronic, Examples, Hangul, Korean, Latin, Malay, Moldova, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Romanian, Somali, Soviet Union, Swahili, There, Turkish
related to External links · 13
Digraphia → Cultural Scenarios Conference, Elena BerlandaBiscriptality, Harold, Heidelberg Academy, HumanitiesWriting Systems, New Perspectives, OzideasDiglossia, Schiffman, Sciences, Scripts, Society, Sociolinguistic, Sociolinguistic Situation
related to Etymology · 10
Digraphia → Charles, Chinese, English, Ferguson, Ferguson's, French, Greek, Grivelet, Latin, Peter Unseth
related to Neologizers · 10
Digraphia → Ajami, Arabic, Boko, English, Four, Hausa, Latin, Petr Zima, The Songhay, Zima
related to Usage · 9
Digraphia → Contemporary American English, Corpus, English, For, International Journal, Language, Sociology, Stéphane Grivelet, Writing
related to Theoretical aspects · 5
Digraphia → Dale, Ferdinand, Grivelet, Saussure's, Some
is a · 2
Digraphia → coexistence of two or more writing systems for the same language, single sociolinguistic process with two types of outcome

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script latin written language writing used two alphabet systems chinese cyrillic scripts diachronic use one system diglossia synchronic pinyin different

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Digraphiais acoexistence of two or more writing systems for the same language0.90text
Digraphiais asingle sociolinguistic process with two types of outcome0.90text
Moldovainstance ofwhich abandoned the Cyrillic script after the dissolution of the USSR0.80text
Azerbaijaninstance ofwhich abandoned the Cyrillic script after the dissolution of the USSR0.80text
Turkmenistaninstance ofwhich abandoned the Cyrillic script after the dissolution of the USSR0.80text
and Uzbekistan which all switched from Cyrillic to Latininstance ofwhich abandoned the Cyrillic script after the dissolution of the USSR0.80text
Digraphiarelated to Diachronic digraphiaDiachronic0.60section
Digraphiarelated to Diachronic digraphiaTurkish0.60section
Digraphiarelated to Diachronic digraphiaArabic0.60section
Digraphiarelated to Diachronic digraphiaLatin0.60section
Digraphiarelated to Diachronic digraphiaMustafa Kemal Atatürk0.60section
Digraphiarelated to Diachronic digraphiaKorean0.60section

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