Standard Written English — is an alphabetic, morphophonemic representation of the English language, and is the world’s most commonly used alphabetic code. It is used as the basis for handwriting, print, Braille, and Signed English. It is relatively transcendent of varying… … Wikipedia
Standard Mandarin — Standard Mandarin, also known as Standard Spoken Chinese, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used in mainland China and Taiwan, and is one of the four official languages of Singapore.The phonology of Standard Mandarin is based on the… … Wikipedia
Standard Cantonese — is the standard variant of the Cantonese (Yuet) language. It is spoken natively in and around the cities of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau in Southern China. Standard Cantonese is the de facto official language of Hong Kong and Macau, and a… … Wikipedia
Written vernacular Chinese — Traditional Chinese 白話 Simplified Chinese 白话 Hanyu Pinyin báihuà Literal meaning plain sp … Wikipedia
Written Cantonese — refers to the written language used to write colloquial standard Cantonese using Chinese characters.Cantonese is usually referred to as a spoken variant, and not as a written variant. Spoken vernacular Cantonese is different from Written Standard … Wikipedia
Standard English — (often shortened to S.E. within linguistic circles) refers to whatever form of the English language is accepted as a national norm in an Anglophone country.[1] It encompasses grammar, vocabulary, and spelling. In the British Isles, particularly… … Wikipedia
Standard Yoruba — (also known as literary Yoruba , the Yoruba koiné , common Yoruba and often simply as Yoruba) is the written form of the West African Yoruba language, which is commonly taught at schools and spoken by newsreaders on the radio. Standard Yoruba has … Wikipedia
Written Chinese — Chinese characters Scripts Precursors · Oracle bone script · Bronze script · Seal script (large, small) · Clerical script · C … Wikipedia
Standard language — A standard language (also standard dialect, standardized dialect, or standardised dialect) is a particular variety of a language that has been given either legal or quasi legal status. As it is usually the form promoted in schools and the media,… … Wikipedia
standard — ▪ I. standard stan‧dard 1 [ˈstændəd ǁ ərd] noun 1. [countable, uncountable] a level of quality, skill, ability, or achievement by which someone or something is judged, and that is considered good enough to be acceptable: • The airline has… … Financial and business terms
