Abstract

This chapter aims to offer novel and detailed trajectories to understand diglossia. By analysing largely unexamined data and showing how they reflect language attitudes, I aim to offer a more systematic explanation of the indexes of different codes in the Arab world. While this study examines the associations of Standard Arabic (SA), Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA), and, to a lesser extent, foreign languages (especially English) in Egypt, the implications of this study can be applied to the whole Arab world.