11. :Another problem is the diglossia issue. 12. Following Ferguson's work on Diglossia , Fishman developed his theory of domain specificity. 13. Diglossia in Catalan is typically stronger in some metropolitan areas than rural or sparsely populated areas.14. Leonese language is a minority language in Spain and Portugal, affected by diglossia in both territories. 15. It is too soon to tell whether this will become a widely used application of " diglossia ". 16. There still exists another type of diglossia , which is between the regional languages and the minority languages. 17. The chart below gives an example of diglossia in Arab-speaking nations and where it is used. 18. Sinhala is an Indo-Aryan language and exhibits a marked diglossia between the spoken and written forms. 19. Joshua Fishman expanded the definition of diglossia to include the use of unrelated languages as high and low varieties. 20. There is a debate, however, on whether there is diglossia or bilingualism, between Filipino and English.
