A standard language (or standard variety, standard dialect, standardized dialect or simply standard) is a language variety that has undergone substantial...

modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949). It is designated as the official language of mainland...

Korean standard language or Pyojuneo (Korean: 표준어; Hanja: 標準語; lit. Standard language) is the South Korean standard version of the Korean language. It is...

Filipino, [ˈwi.kɐŋ fi.liˈpi.no̞]) is a language under the Austronesian language family. It is the national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of...

North Korean standard language or Munhwaŏ (Korean: 문화어; lit. "cultural language") is the North Korean standard version of the Korean language. Munhwaŏ was...

is a recognized minority language in Croatia, North Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. Standard Serbian is based on the most...

considered a pluricentric language with the national standard varieties of German Standard German, Austrian Standard German and Swiss Standard German. These varieties...

Tarifit, the three major Amazigh languages in Morocco. It has been an official language of Morocco since 2011. Standard Moroccan Amazigh is typically referred...

the variety of spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard. MSA is the language used in literature, academia, print and mass media, law and...

pluricentric language mainly used by Croats. It is the national official language and literary standard of Croatia, one of the official languages of Bosnia...

simply just Austrian (Österreichisch), is the variety of Standard German and a West Germanic language written and spoken in Austria and Italian South Tyrol...

informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified...

Germanic languages, mainly from Middle Low German (Middle Saxon) and, after the 16th-century Protestant Reformation, from the Standard German language. Estonia's...

The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML; ISO 8879:1986) is a standard for defining generalized markup languages for documents. ISO 8879 Annex A...

as Standard Malay (Bahasa Melayu piawai), Bahasa Malaysia (lit. 'Malaysian language'), or simply Malay, is a standardized form of the Malay language used...

content Standard displacement, a naval term describing the weight and status of a warship Standard language, a particular variety of a language accepted...

four mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. South Slavic languages historically formed a dialect...

Standard English (SE) is the variety of English that has undergone codification to the point of being socially perceived as the standard language, associated...

while it can be sidestepped through the passive form. Standard Slovene is the national standard language that was formed in the 18th and 19th century, based...

Latvians" who popularized the use of Latvian language. Participants in this movement laid the foundations for standard Latvian and also popularized the Latvianization...

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written...

includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language of China. Because Mandarin originated in North China and...

one (German) of four national languages in Switzerland, besides French, Italian, and Romansh. It is a variety of Standard German, used in the German-speaking...

Prakrit languages and later Apabhraṃśa (Sanskrit: अपभ्रंश, 'deviated' or 'non-grammatical speech') From 600 BC, Sanskrit developed as the standard literary...

Austroasiatic languages and other languages with which it has historically been in contact. In the 19th and 20th centuries, there were two standard forms of...

Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside...

/ˈiːboʊ/ EE-boh, US also /ˈɪɡboʊ/ IG-boh; Standard Igbo: Ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò [ásʊ̀sʊ̀ ìɡ͡bò] ) is the principal native language cluster of the Igbo people, an ethnicity...

de facto national language of the country. There is a form of the language considered standard: hyōjungo (標準語), meaning "standard Japanese", or kyōtsūgo...

official language of Germany is German, with over 95 percent of the country speaking Standard German or a dialect of German as their first language. This...

on the dialect and accent of the speaker. Standard Swedish, spoken by most Swedes, is the national language that evolved from the Central Swedish dialects...