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ausbau

ausbau adjective: constituting a standard; being deliberately shaped and standardized; having the social, political, or legal status of a standard language.

Adjective (1)

ausbau (not comparable)

  1. Constituting a standard; being deliberately shaped and standardized; having the social, political, or legal status of a standard language.
    • 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.1988, “Religion and language varieties: the case of Hindi-Urdu”, in Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Werner Winter, editors, Languages and Cultures, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 745

Noun (1)

ausbau (plural ausbaus)

  1. The process of standardizing a language; the resulting standard language.
    • […] 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.1988, “Religion and language varieties: the case of Hindi-Urdu”, in Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Werner Winter, editors, Languages and Cultures, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 745

Adjective (2) capitalized: Ausbau

Ausbau (not comparable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of ausbau.
    • The general aim is to prevent the Ausbau language from being confused with the other, stronger language in contact.2018, Peter A. Kraus, François Grin, editors, The Politics of Multilingualism: Europeanisation, globalisation and linguistic governance, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 149

Noun (2) capitalized: Ausbau

Ausbau (plural Ausbaus)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of ausbau.

Forms of ausbau

Adjective
alternative formAusbau
Noun
pluralausbaus
pluralAusbaus

Origin of ausbau

From German Ausbausprache.

Questions about ausbau

What does ausbau mean?
Ausbau means constituting a standard; being deliberately shaped and standardized; having the social, political, or legal status of a standard language.
What part of speech is ausbau?
Ausbau can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ausbau in the dictionary

  1. Aurès
  2. AUS
  3. AUSA
  4. Ausable
  5. AUSAs
  6. ausbau
  7. Ausbrooks
  8. Ausbrookses
  9. ausbruch
  10. Ausbruchs
  11. Ausburn

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