Морфология

e variety spoken in Athens. Today, the opponents of this new Greek language based on the L variety attack it for being impoverished and cut off from its roots, which are said to be the former H variety and Ancient Greek.

The linguistic situations in Haiti and Greece are intimately tied to power relationships among social groups. Traditionally, in each country the H variety has been associated with an elite and the L variety with everyone else. Diglossia reinforces social distinctions. It is used to assert social position and to keep people in their place, particularly those at the lower end of the social hierarchy. Any move to extend the L variety, even in the case of Haiti to make the population literate in any variety, is likely to be perceived to be a direct threat to those who want to maintain traditional relationships and the existing power structure.
Swiss German diglossia has its own stabilizing factors. Switzerland is a multilingual country, with German, French, and Italian its three official languages. Strong constitutional protection is provided for German, the H variety of which is taught in the schools and used in official publications, newspapers, literature, and church services. This allows the German Swiss to communicate with speakers of German elsewhere in Europe and gives them access to everything written in Standard German. However, the Germans in Switzerland can also assert their independence of other Germans through use of their L variety. This is their own distinctive unifying spoken variety of German, one in which they take a special pride. The continuation of the High German - Swiss diglossic situation depends every much on the continued effectiveness of educating Swiss German children to use High German in the schools so as to enc