{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.03646237393328161, 'fraction_numerical': 0.02948021722265322, 'mean_word_length': 5.056338028169014, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
An instance of triglossia? Codeswitching as evidence for the present state of Greece’s ”language question”

This paper traces the history of Greek diglossia from ancient times, noting that there have only been two periods when the language was not diglossic. Against this background, it examines a series of spontaneous oral dialogues recorded in 1994. Their codeswitching patterns are analyzed to discover what has happened to Greek diglossia since the government's establishment in 1976 of populär-Greek äs its official language. The papers principal conclusion is that common modern Greek in the late twentieth Century has indeed ceased to be diglossic. In 1976, the government of Greece, under Minister of Education George Rallis, officially abolished one of the country's two major dialects — katharevousa, the "purified" tongue (see Table 1). As the Century now draws to its close, scholars have begun to suggest that the modern Greek language exists äs a single, autonomous language System, a System with a wide ränge of dialectal, historical, and individual variants, but none of which is presently so extreme nor so influential äs to warrant the term "diglossia" or "diglossy" (e.g. Doukanari 1991: 524; Browning 1982: 56-58, 66^67; Setatos 1978b: 45). But it was not always thus.