| This dialect, which has coexisted with Romance in a diglossic situation for many years, is characterised by its possessing numerous archaisms and strong Romance interference, especially phonetic and lexical. |
| Thus, the fact that a language is diglossic is actually a feature of the linguistic culture of the area where that language is used, rather than of the language per se. |
| It developed partly as a result of sociocultural facts such as the diglossic situation in Canada and the resultant negative view of mainstream translation in Quebec. |
| Outcomes may also be affected by the type of bilingual programmes evaluated and whether there is a diglossic language environment, in which different languages are used for different functions and situations. |
| Quinn first questions the academic argument, which he sees as ignoring the importance of separate diglossic language communities as a basis for maintaining an ongoing bilingualism. |
| Indeed, the success of these programmes depends on the existence of a diglossic language environment where there are discrete sectors in which each language is used. |
