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...

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

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

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

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

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

spoken form of language (though possibly written), particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more...

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

Outside India, several other languages are recognised officially as "Hindi" but do not refer to the Standard Hindi language described here and instead descend...

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

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

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

country, Standard English (SE) is the variety of English that has undergone substantial regularisation and is associated with formal schooling, language assessment...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

use of the South's standard language with the death penalty, and South Korean education and media often portray the North's language as alien and uncomfortable...

in favour of other languages. The current standard form of Russian is generally regarded as the modern Russian literary language (современный русский...

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...

regional variants of the standard language exist. The main differences in language are between generations, with youth language being particularly innovative...