Standard language | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Standard language


00:00:56 1 Standardization
00:03:56 2 Examples
00:04:05 2.1 Chinese
00:05:45 2.2 Dutch
00:07:05 2.3 English
00:07:46 2.4 Greek
00:08:05 2.5 Hindi-Urdu
00:08:29 2.6 Irish
00:09:18 2.7 Italian
00:10:23 2.8 Latin
00:10:58 2.9 Portuguese
00:11:48 2.10 Serbo-Croatian
00:12:42 2.11 Somali
00:13:10 3 See also



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SUMMARY
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A standard language or standard variety is either as a language variety used by a population for public purposes, or a variety that has undergone standardization.
Typically, varieties that become standardized are the local dialects spoken in the centers of commerce and government, where a need arises for a variety that will serve more than local needs.
Standardization typically involves a fixed orthography, codification in authoritative grammars and dictionaries and public acceptance of these standards.
A standard written language is sometimes termed by the German word Schriftsprache.
A pluricentric language has multiple interacting standard varieties.
Examples include English, French,  Portuguese, German, Korean, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, Armenian and Chinese.
Monocentric languages, such as Russian and Japanese, have only one standardized version.