Diglossia

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A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

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What Wikipedia says

In linguistics, diglossia ( dy-GLOSS-ee-ə, US also dy-GLAW-see-ə) is where two dialects or languages are used (in fairly strict compartmentalization) by a single language community.

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