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...

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

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...

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...

Habsburg Empire. At the time, the written standard was Oberdeutsche Schreibsprache (Upper German written language), which was highly influenced by the Bavarian...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Urdish." Standard Urdu is often compared with Standard Hindi. Both Urdu and Hindi, which are considered standard registers of the same language, Hindustani...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

German (Standard High German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔʏ̯t͡ʃ] ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western...