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(sociolinguistics) A form of a language that is institutionally promoted, regarded as the most correct or neutral variety; used by a population for public and formal purposes.

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(sociolinguistics) A form of a language that is institutionally promoted, regarded as the most "correct" or neutral variety; used by a population for public and formal purposes.

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標準語：機関的に推奨され、最も正しいまたは中立とみなされる言語形式で、公共や公式な場面で使用される言葉。

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多くの話者は、家庭の方言と異なる場合でも、公式な場では標準語を採用するよう圧力を感じる。

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(sociolinguistics) A form of a language that is institutionally promoted, regarded as the most "correct" or neutral variety; used by a population for public and formal purposes.

In modern standard languages, norms of usage often seem to be superimposed by prescriptive norms.

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(sociolinguistics) A language that has a standard form as one of its varieties; a language that has undergone standardization.

Some remain clusters of dialects like those of the Pamirs; others are at varying levels of stabilisation; some may be young standard languages, having only recently achieved that status; …

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