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A Linguistic Approach to the ‘Language Question’ in Greece1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

G. Babiniotis
G. Babiniotis*
Affiliation:
University of Athens
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In 1975, one year after the restoration of democracy in Greece, the government made a historic decision regarding the Greek language: Modern Greek – by which I mean the simple, everyday language as it is spoken today by all Greeks who have enjoyed an elementary school education – was adopted as the official language of the state. With this decision we embarked on the definitive solution of one of the longest standing controversies of modern hellenism: the language problem, which has tormented the Greeks for centuries.

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Research Article
Information
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 5 , 1979 , pp. 1 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1979

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References

2. Ferguson, A., ‘Diglossia’, Word, XV (1959), 325-40 CrossRefGoogle Scholar. ‘[Diglossia is] one particular kind of standardization where two varieties of a language exist side by side throughout the community, with each having a definite rôle to play.’