Ausbau
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ausbau is an adjective meaning The process of standardizing a language; the resulting standard language.
Meaning
The process of standardizing a language; the resulting standard language.
More Meanings
- (linguistics, sociolinguistics, of a language or dialect) Constituting a standard; being deliberately shaped and standardized; having the social, political, or legal status of a standard language.
Example Sentences
Thus the Hindi/Urdu situation was created by an ausbau process, not unlike the process which created Norwegian as distinct from Danish, and Afrikaans as distinct from Dutch.
[…] the Hindi ausbau was created long before separation and thus had to compete with its model — a competition which could only succeed if the ausbau was made on the basis of the religious symbols of the 75% Hindu population.
Word Forms
- ausbaus
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include endonormative, exonormative, allophone, english, pondian, insular.
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