ausbau

See also: Ausbau

English

Alternative forms

• Ausbau

Etymology

From German Ausbausprache.

Adjective

ausbau (not comparable)

1. (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.
   • 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:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• abstand

Related terms

• Ausbauization

Noun

ausbau (plural ausbaus)

1. The process of standardizing a language; the resulting standard language.
   • 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:

     […] 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.

Anagrams

• abusua