Practice question · Put in order
Order the steps by which one dialect becomes "the national language".
- Schools teach the standard to every child
- Rival varieties get reclassified as mere dialects
- Printers standardize its spelling and grammar
- A political or commercial center adopts its own dialect for administration
Hints
- The standard wins through administration and schooling.
- Its rivals are then redefined as substandard versions of it.
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- A political or commercial center adopts its own dialect for administration
- Printers standardize its spelling and grammar
- Schools teach the standard to every child
- Rival varieties get reclassified as mere dialects
Why
"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy": the standard wins by administration, print, and schooling, then rewrites its rivals as corruptions of itself.
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