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- See also changes related to Standard language, or pages that link to Standard language or to this page or whose text contains "Standard language".
Parent topics
- Sociolinguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. [e]
- Language planning [r]: In sociolinguistics, the name for any political attempt to change the status of a language in some way or develop new ways of using it, e.g. a government devising laws to promote a language, or scholars producing an official dictionary; the former is status planning (changing the political recognition of a language), the latter corpus planning (changing the way a language is used). [e]
- Dialect [r]: Regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists. [e]
Subtopics
- Pluricentric language [r]: Language with different standard varieties, originating from different states (sometimes from different regions, dialects or communities), without precluding the unity of the language. [e]
- Koine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Diasystem [r]: Add brief definition or description