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Wulfila
(519 words)
[German version] ('Wolfling', Gr. Οὐλφίλας/
Oulphílas, also Οὐρφίλας/
Ourphílas), born
c. 311, died 382 or 383. Bishop of the Goths (Goti), author of a Gothic translation of the Bible (Bible translations), the most important source by far for the Gothic language and the East-Germanic languages in general. Son of a Christian Greek mother (captured in a Gothic raid on Cappadocia) and a Gothic father. Probably in 341 (Auxentius of Durosturum in Maximinus [6], Dissertatio 34:
triginta annorum episc
opus est ordinatus), W. was consecrated 'bishop of the Christians in the land of…
Source:
Brill’s New Pauly
Diglossia
(373 words)
[German version] The term ‘diglossia’ (not to be confused with bilingualism) was already used late in the 19th cent. to characterize the Greek language situation. However, it only became a central concept in sociolinguistics with Ch. Ferguson's essay [1] in which he developed the canonical definition using Swiss German, (Modern) Greek, Arabic and Haitian Creole as examples. It considers diglossia to be a language situation in which the spoken primary language (which Ferguson labelled ‘L’ as in ‘Low’; in the Greek language area this was the δημοτική,
dhimotikí), whether regionally…
Source:
Brill’s New Pauly