This term was first used in a 1959 article by Charles Ferguson entitled The Arabic Koiné, which posited that all of the dialects existing outside of the Arabian peninsula had as their common source a variety spoken in 7th century military camps distinct from the language of the Qu'ran.
This term was first used in a 1959 article by Charles Ferguson entitled The Arabic Koiné, which posited that all of the dialects existing outside of the Arabian peninsula had as their common source a variety spoken in 7th century military camps distinct from the language of the Qu'ran. In Greece, Katharevusa is the dialect used for formal situations, while Demotic is the dialect used in vernacular as defined by this idea. Not to be confused with code switching or bilingualism, FTP, identify this term from linguistics that denotes situations where a community speaks high and low forms of the same language.
This term was first used in a 1959 article by Charles Ferguson entitled The Arabic Koiné, which posited that all of the dialects existing outside of the Arabian peninsula had as their common source a variety spoken in 7th century military camps distinct from the language of the Qu'ran.
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