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English
Noun
standard language (plural standard languages)
- (sociolinguistics) A form of a language that is institutionally promoted, regarded as the most correct or neutral variety, and is used by a population for public and formal purposes.
- Synonyms: standard, standard dialect, standard variety
- 2014, Stephan Elspaß, Prescriptive norms and norms of usage in nineteenth-century German, University of Salzburg p. 303:
- In modern standard languages, norms of usage often seem to be superimposed by prescriptive norms.
- (sociolinguistics) A language that has a standard form as one of its varieties; a language that has undergone standardization.
- Synonym: standardized language
1978, James E. Alatis, International Dimensions of Bilingual Education, Georgetown University Press, page xii:Some remain clusters of dialects like those of the Pamirs; others are at varying levels of stabilisation; some may be young standard languages, having only recently achieved that status;
1994, Suzanne Romaine, Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 85:Not all standard languages have the backing of institutions such as the Académie française. English is a good example of a standard language without such a regulatory body.
Translations
standard variety
- Afrikaans: standaardtaal (af)
- Afrikaans: standaardtaal (af)
- Arabic: معيرة لغة f (muʕīra luḡa)
- Azerbaijani: standart dil, ədəbi dil
- Basque: hizkuntza estandar
- Belarusian: стандартная мова f (standartnaja móva), літаратурная мова f (litaraturnaja móva), нарматыўная мова f (narmatyŭnaja móva), культурная мова f (kulʹturnaja móva)
- Bengali: প্রমিত ভাষা (prômitô bhaśa)
- Bulgarian: стандартен език m (standarten ezik), литературен език m (literaturen ezik), книжовен език m (knižoven ezik)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 標準語言 / 标准语言
- Czech: standardní jazyk m, spisovný jazyk m
- Dutch: standaardtaal (nl) f
- Finnish: yleiskieli (fi), kirjakieli (fi) (written), standardikieli
- French: langue standard f
- German: Standardsprache (de) f, Ausbausprache (de) f, Schriftsprache (de) f (especially written), Einheitssprache (de) f, Hochsprache (de) f, Gemeinsprache (de) f, Literatursprache (de) f
- Hungarian: sztenderd nyelvváltozat, sztenderd nyelv (hu), művelt köznyelv, sztenderd (hu), irodalmi nyelv
- Indonesian: bahasa baku (id), bahasa standar (id)
- Italian: lingua standard f
- Japanese: 標準語 (ja) (hyōjungo)
- Kalmyk: бәрмҗ келн (bärmj keln)
- Kazakh: әдеби тіл (ädebi tıl)
- Korean: 표준어 (ko) (pyojuneo)
- Latvian: standarta valoda f, literārā valoda f
- Lithuanian: bendrinė kalba f, standartinė kalba f, bendroji kalba f, literatūrinė kalba f
- Macedonian: стандарден јазик m (standarden jazik), литературен јазик m (literaturen jazik)
- Malay: bahasa baku, bahasa piawai, bahasa standard
- Polish: język ogólny (pl) m, język standardowy (pl) m, język literacki (pl) m, dialekt kulturalny m, narzecze ogólne n
- Portuguese: língua padrão f, língua-padrão f
- Romanian: limbă standard
- Russian: станда́ртный язы́к m (standártnyj jazýk), литерату́рный язы́к (ru) m (literatúrnyj jazýk), нормати́вный язы́к m (normatívnyj jazýk), культу́рный язы́к m (kulʹtúrnyj jazýk)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: стандардни језик m, књижевни језик m, стандардни идиом m
- Roman: standardni jezik m, književni jezik m, standardni idiom m
- Slovak: štandardný jazyk m, spisovný jazyk m
- Slovene: standardni jezik m, knjižni jezik m
- Spanish: lengua estándar f
- Swedish: standardspråk (sv) n, riksspråk n, högspråk (sv) n
- Turkish: standart dil (tr), ölçünlü dil (tr)
- Ukrainian: літературна мова (uk) f (literaturna mova), стандартна мова f (standartna mova), нормативна мова f (normatyvna mova), культурна мова f (kulʹturna mova)
- Vietnamese: tiếng chuẩn
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See also
References
- Finegan, Edward (2007) Language: Its Structure and Use, Boston: Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 14
- Coulmas, Florian (2017) An Introduction to Multilingualism: Language in a Changing World, Oxford University Press, p. 48, →ISBN
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