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.

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Linguistics - Dialect - Language

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Examples are Danish language and Norwegian Bokmål, and the Dutch and Low Saxon languages. A well-known diasystem is that of the Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian languages, which were up until the breakup of Yugoslavia jointly referred to as the Serbo-Croatian language, but are now treated as separate languages.

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Danish language - Norwegian Bokmål - Dutch - Low Saxon - Serbian - Bosnian - Croatian - Yugoslavia - Serbo-Croatian language

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