Pluricentric language

A pluricentric language or polycentric language is a language with several interacting codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries.Examples include Armenian, Chinese, English, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish and Swedish. A language that has only one formally standardized version is monocentric. Examples include Japanese and Russian.In some cases the different standards of a pluricentric language may be elaborated until they become autonomous languages, as happened with Malaysian and Indonesian or Hindi and Urdu. The same process is under way in Serbo-Croatian. A pluricentric language or polycentric language is a language with several interacting codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries.Examples include Armenian, Chinese, English, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish and Swedish. A language that has only one formally standardized version is monocentric. Examples include Japanese and Russian.In some cases the different standards of a pluricentric language may be elaborated until they become autonomous languages, as happened with Malaysian and Indonesian or Hindi and Urdu. The same process is under way in Serbo-Croatian. Pre-Islamic Arabic can be considered a polycentric language. In Arabic-speaking countries different levels of polycentricity can be detected.Modern Arabic is a pluricentric language with varying branches correlating with different regions where Arabic is spoken and the type of communities speaking it. The vernacular varieties of Arabic include: In addition, many speakers use Modern Standard Arabic in education and formal settings. Therefore, in Arabic-speaking communities, diglossia is frequent. The Aramaic language is a pluricentric language, having many different literary standards, including The Armenian language is a pluricentric language with the liturgical Classical Armenian and two vernacular standards, Eastern Armenian and Western Armenian. Speakers outside of the former Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (including all Western Armenians as well as Eastern Armenians in Iran) use the Classical Armenian orthography, while others adopt the reformed Armenian alphabet.