Морфология

ntents or explain parts of it in an L variety so as to ensure understanding.
Thus, The H variety is the prestigious, powerful variety; the L variety lacks prestige and power. In fact, there may be so little prestige attached to the L variety that people may even deny that they know it although they may be observed to use it far more frequently than the H variety. Associated with this prestige valuation for the H variety, there is likely to be a strong feeling that the prestige is deserved because the H variety is more beautiful, logical, and expressive than the L variety. That is why it is deemed appropriate for literary use, for religious purposes, and so on. There may also be considerable and widespread resistance to translating certain books into the L variety, e. g. , the Quran into one or other colloquial varieties of Arabic or the Bible into Haitian Creole or Demotic Greek. (We should note that even today many speakers of English resist the Bible in any form other than the King James version. )
Another important difference between the H and L varieties is that all children learn the L variety. Some may concurrently learn the H variety, but many do not learn it at all; e. g. , most Haitians have no knowledge at all of Standard French but all can speak some variety of Haitian Creole, although some, may deny that they have this ability. The H variety is also likely to be learned in some kind of formal setting, e. g. , in classrooms or as part of a religious or cultural teaching. To that extent, the H variety is taught, whereas the L variety is learned. Teaching requires the availability of grammars, dictionaries, standardized texts, and some widely accepted view about the nature of what is being taught and how it is most effectively to be taught. There a