A report on Standard language

Language variety that has undergone substantial codification of grammar and usage, although occasionally the term refers to the entirety of a language that includes a standardized form as one of its varieties.

- Standard language

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Germanic languages division including West and East Scandinavian languages and dialects

North Germanic languages

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The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.

The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.

Germanic languages division including West and East Scandinavian languages and dialects

This is also because of the strong influence of the standard languages, particularly in Denmark and Sweden.

Hindustani language

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Ancestors of the language were known as: Hindui, Hindavi, Zabān-e Hind, Zabān-e Hindustan , Hindustan ki boli , Rekhta, and Hindi.

Ancestors of the language were known as: Hindui, Hindavi, Zabān-e Hind, Zabān-e Hindustan , Hindustan ki boli , Rekhta, and Hindi.

The phrase Zabān-e Urdu-ye Mualla in Nastaʿlīq
Lashkari Zabān title in the Perso-Arabic script
Hindustani, in its standardised registers, is one of the official languages of both India (Hindi) and Pakistan (Urdu).
"Surahi" in Samrup Rachna calligraphy

Hindustani is a pluricentric language, best characterised as a continuum between two standardised registers: Modern Standard Hindi and Modern Standard Urdu.

Local dialects of the West Germanic continuum are oriented toward either Standard Dutch or Standard German depending on which side of the border they are spoken. Bordering dialects are generally mutually intelligible, despite their orientation to either standardized variety

Autonomy and heteronomy

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Autonomy and heteronomy are complementary attributes of a language variety describing its functional relationship with related varieties.

Autonomy and heteronomy are complementary attributes of a language variety describing its functional relationship with related varieties.

Local dialects of the West Germanic continuum are oriented toward either Standard Dutch or Standard German depending on which side of the border they are spoken. Bordering dialects are generally mutually intelligible, despite their orientation to either standardized variety

Where several closely related varieties are found together, a standard language is autonomous because it has its own orthography, dictionaries, grammar books and literature.

An overview of differences in spelling across English dialects.

British English

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An overview of differences in spelling across English dialects.

British English (BrE) or Anglo-English is the standard dialect of "English as used in Great Britain, as distinct from that used elsewhere".

Hindi

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Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India.

Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India.

Distribution of L1 speakers of the Hindi family of languages (as defined by the Government of India; includes Rajasthani, Western Pahari, Eastern Hindi, among others) in India.

Hindi has been described as a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language, which itself is based primarily on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi and neighbouring areas of North India.

Classical Latin

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David Ruhnken
Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel
At Maecenas' Reception, oil, Stefan Bakałowicz, 1890. An artist's view of the classical. Maecenas knew and entertained everyone literary in the Golden Age, especially Augustus.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, after whom Teuffel named his Ciceronian period of the Golden Age
Julius Caesar
The frowning second emperor, Tiberius, limited free speech, precipitating the rise of Silver Latin, with its emphasis on mannerism rather than on solid content, according to Teuffel's model
Marcus Aurelius, emperor over the last generation of classicists and himself a classicist.
Germanicus Caesar
Ancient bust of Seneca, part of a double herm (Antikensammlung Berlin)
Sketch of Apuleius

Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a literary standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire.

Standard Macedonian

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Standard Macedonian or literary Macedonian (книжевен македонски јазик or македонски литературен јазик) is the standard variety of the Macedonian language and the official language of North Macedonia used in writing, in formal contexts, and for communication between different dialect areas.

Chinese language

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Group of languages that form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages family, spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China.

Group of languages that form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages family, spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China.

After applying the linguistic comparative method to the database of comparative linguistic data developed by Laurent Sagart in 2019 to identify sound correspondences and establish cognates, phylogenetic methods are used to infer relationships among these languages and estimate the age of their origin and homeland.
The Tripitaka Koreana, a Korean collection of the Chinese Buddhist canon
Range of Chinese dialect groups in China Mainland and Taiwan according to the Language Atlas of China
"Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion" by Wang Xizhi, written in semi-cursive style
永 (meaning "forever") is often used to illustrate the eight basic types of strokes of Chinese characters.
"National language" (國語/国语; Guóyǔ) written in Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters, followed by various romanizations.
Yang Lingfu, former curator of the National Museum of China, giving Chinese language instruction at the Civil Affairs Staging Area in 1945.

Standard Chinese, often called Mandarin, is the official standard language of China, de facto official language of Taiwan, and one of the four official languages of Singapore (where it is called "Huáyŭ" 华语/華語 or simply Chinese).

Language secessionism

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Attitude supporting the separation of a language variety from the language to which it has hitherto been considered to belong, in order to make this variety be considered as a distinct language.

Attitude supporting the separation of a language variety from the language to which it has hitherto been considered to belong, in order to make this variety be considered as a distinct language.

Balearic language secessionism is quite marginal and is supported by a few cultural groups. It has very little impact in the population. It is included in a wider (but unorganized) tendency called "gonellisme", which struggles against the standardization of Catalan.

Armenian language

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Indo-European language belonging to an independent branch of which it is the only member.

Indo-European language belonging to an independent branch of which it is the only member.

Armenian manuscript, 5th–6th century.
The Four Gospels, 1495, Portrait of St Mark Wellcome with Armenian inscriptions
First printed Armenian language Bible, 1666
Armenian language road sign.
Armenian keyboard layout using the Armenian alphabet.
Map of the Armenian dialects in early 20th century:
-owm dialects, nearly corresponding to Eastern Armenian
-el dialects (intermediate)
-gë dialects, nearly corresponding to Western Armenian

Armenian is a pluricentric language, having two modern standardized forms: Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian.