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  2. Standard language - Wikipedia

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    A standard language (or standard variety, standard dialect, standardized dialect or simply standard) is any language variety that has undergone substantial codification of its grammar, lexicon, writing system, or other features and that stands out among related varieties in a community as the one with the highest status or prestige.

  3. Category:Standard languages - Wikipedia

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    العربية; Asturianu; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Български; Español; Esperanto; فارسی; Français; Gaelg; Galego ...

  4. English language - Wikipedia

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    The standard orthography of English is the most widely used writing system in the world. [265] Standard English spelling is based on a graphomorphemic segmentation of words into written clues of what meaningful units make up each word. [266]

  5. List of ISO 639 language codes - Wikipedia

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    Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [2] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3, defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural languages, largely superseding the ISO 639-2 three-letter code standard.

  6. Standard English - Wikipedia

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    In an English-speaking country, Standard English (SE) is the variety of English that has undergone codification to the point of being socially perceived as the standard language, associated with formal schooling, language assessment, and official print publications, such as public service announcements and newspapers of record, etc. [1] All linguistic features are subject to the effects of ...

  7. South Korean standard language - Wikipedia

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    When Korea was under Japanese rule, the use of the Korean language was regulated by the Japanese government.To counter the influence of the Japanese authorities, the Korean Language Society [] (한글 학회) began collecting dialect data from all over Korea and later created their own standard version of Korean, Pyojuneo, with the release of their book Unification of Korean Spellings (한글 ...

  8. Language - Wikipedia

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    Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. ... which are languages with more than one standard variety, ...

  9. List of official languages - Wikipedia

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    National language in Switzerland (with German, French, and Italian) [41] ... Standard Chinese: 33 Spanish: 31 Persian: 29 German: 18 Russian: 16 Malay: 13 Portuguese: 12