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  2. Diglossia - Wikipedia

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    The high variety may be an older stage of the same language (as in medieval Europe, where Latin (H) remained in formal use even as colloquial speech (L) diverged), an unrelated language, or a distinct yet closely related present-day dialect (as in northern India and Pakistan, where Hindustani (L) is used alongside the standard registers of ...

  3. Institutional discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Institutional discrimination is discriminatory treatment of an individual or group of individuals by institutions, through unequal consideration of members of subordinate groups. Societal discrimination is discrimination by society. These unfair and indirect methods of discrimination are often embedded in an institution's policies, procedures ...

  4. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Compound verbs, a highly visible feature of Hindi–Urdu grammar, consist of a verbal stem plus a light verb. The light verb (also called "subsidiary", "explicator verb", and "vector" [ 55 ] ) loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning" [ 56 ] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of ...

  5. Linguistic purism - Wikipedia

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    The first meaning is the historical trend of every language to conserve intact its lexical structure of word families, in opposition to foreign influence which are considered 'impure'. The second meaning is the practice, possibly prescriptive , [ 1 ] of determining and recognizing one linguistic variety (dialect) as being purer or of ...

  6. Social exclusion - Wikipedia

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    Such exclusionary forms of discrimination may also apply to disabled people, minorities, LGBTQ+ people, drug users, [7] institutional care leavers, [8] the elderly and the young. Anyone who appears to deviate in any way from perceived norms of a population may thereby become subject to coarse or subtle forms of social exclusion.

  7. Institutionalized discrimination also exists in institutions aside from the government such as religion, education, and marriage among many other. Routines that encourage the selection of one individual over another, for instance in an employment situation, is a form of institutionalized discrimination. The phenomenon occurs unintentionally at ...

  8. Institutionalized discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Institutionalized discrimination

  9. Institutional racism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    It had been near impossible to prove a case of institutional discrimination in the courts, [169] [170] and many other cases were terminated upon imposition of a consent decree. While President George H. W. Bush's attempt failed, it did give rise to the 1997 California Proposition 209 , [ 171 ] a ballot initiative abolishing affirmative action ...