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Excellent must-read essay.
Couple of things I would've worded differently:
1- The Lebanese speak Lebanese period, NOT Lebanese Arabic, just like the French speak French, NOT French Latin;
newlinesmag.com/argument/how-a…
2- Lebanese is a language, NOT a dialect (the word dialect is a statement of power, not observation and NOT analysis);
3- Diglossia is a linguistic situation where two or more languages (NOT necessarily only "varieties of the same language") coexist in a subordinate relationship
(a High language that is learned and NOT natively spoken, vs. a Low language that is natively spoken and subordinated to the H.) #JoshuaFishman expanded Ferguson's restrictive definition to include unrelated languages (eg, Alsatian vs. French) in the diglossic relationships...
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