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Pluricentric language

A pluricentric language or polycentric language is a language with several codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries.[1][2][3][4] Many examples of such languages can be found worldwide among the most-spoken languages, including but not limited to Chinese in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Singapore; English in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India, and elsewhere; and French in France, Canada, and elsewhere.[5] The converse case is a monocentric language, which has only one formally standardized version. Examples include Japanese and Russian.[6] In some cases, the different standards of a pluricentric language may be elaborated to appear as separate languages, e.g. Malaysian and Indonesian, Hindi and Urdu, while Serbo-Croatian is in an earlier stage of that process.[6]

  1. ^ Stewart 1968, p. 534.
  2. ^ Kloss 1967, p. 31.
  3. ^ Clyne 1992, p. 1.
  4. ^ Kordić 2024, p. 169.
  5. ^ Clyne 1992, pp. 1–3.
  6. ^ a b Clyne 1992, p. 3.

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