standard variety

English

Noun

standard variety (plural standard varieties)

1. (sociolinguistics) Synonym of standard language
   • 1975, United States Commission on Civil Rights, A Better Chance to Learn - Bilingual Bicultural Education, Volume 51, page 112:

     Finally, many children speak a nonstandard variety of their native language even though they understand the standard variety, which is the language of wider communication.

   Antonym: nonstandard variety

Usage notes

• This term is used as a more neutral replacement for the loaded standard language. Compare standard dialect.

Translations

variety of language regarded as most "correct", widely accepted, or neutral — see also standard language

• Afrikaans: standaardvariëteit
• Czech: spisovná varieta f, standardní varieta f
• German: Standardvarietät f
• Indonesian: varietas baku, ragam baku (id)
• Polish: odmiana ogólna języka f, odmiana standardowa języka f, narzecze ogólne n, odmiana literacka języka f
• Russian: литературная форма языка f (literaturnaja forma jazyka), стандартная форма языка f (standartnaja forma jazyka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стандардни варијетет m, стандардни идиом m

  Roman: standardni varijetet m, standardni idiom m

• Slovak: spisovná varieta f, štandardná varieta f
• Ukrainian: літературна форма мови f (literaturna forma movy), стандартна форма мови f (standartna forma movy)