Sociolinguistics 6, Exercise 3: diglossia The challenge: Ferguson's model expects strictly separate domains for H and L. The source says speakers often mix varieties, especially in the Arab world, which challenges that model. A change of prestige: Dimotiki became Greece's sole standard language in 1976. (The page also says Creole is now recognised as a standard language in Haiti, but gives no year for that.) Source: Wikipedia, Diglossia.