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This document provides an overview of Lecture Four from a Sociolinguistics course at the University of Djelfa. The lecture discusses varieties in contact, including diglossia, bilingualism, code-switching, pidgins and creoles. [1] Diglossia describes a situation where two closely related languages have different levels of prestige, with one used for formal contexts and one for informal speech. An example is the use of Modern Standard Arabic and Arabic dialects. [2] Bilingualism refers to individuals or comm

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Sa Mira

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