ausbau
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4ADJ.
long
VERB + AUSBAU
created, prevent, succeed
AUSBAU + NOUN
language
PREP.
from, on, unlike
Definitions
adj
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.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of ausbau.
adj
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.
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3The general aim is to prevent the Ausbau language from being confused with the other, stronger language in contact.
WiktionaryThus 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.
Wiktionary[…] 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
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