Diasystem
In
linguistics, a
diasystem is a term used in structural
dialectology, to refer to a single genetic
language which has two or more standard forms. The dialects are often divided into separate languages due to political reasons, most obviously with
Serbo-Croatian, which is split into
Bosnian,
Croatian and
Serbian due to their use by different Slavic groups in the
Balkans and their status in the nations of
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia and
Serbia respectively. Other possible differences between languages include vocabulary, such as
Occitan being affected by
French and
Catalan by
Spanish words, and writing systems, such as
Hindi in
Devanagari and
Urdu in the
Arabic script, despite being
mutually intelligible to some degree.
Examples include:
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Hindustani (
Hindi-
Urdu)
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Serbo-Croatian (
Bosnian-
Croatian-
Serbian)
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Dano-Norwegian (
Danish-
Bokmål Norwegian-
Nynorsk Norwegian)
*
Occitan-
Catalan*
Portuguese-Galician (
Portuguese-
Galician)
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Malay (
Bahasa Malaysia-
Bahasa Indonesia)
*
Persian-
Tajik-
Dari*
Romanian-
Moldovan*
Bulgarian-
Macedonian (Eastern South Slavic)
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Dachsprache*
Dialect continuum*
Pluricentric language*
Standard language
