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Meaning of Ausbau | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of ausbau.
    alt-of, not-comparable
  2. Constituting a standard; being deliberately shaped and standardized; having the social, political, or legal status of a standard language.
    not-comparable

Examples

“The general aim is to prevent the Ausbau language from being confused with the other, stronger language in contact.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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