ausbau
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative letter-case form of ausbau.
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.
noun
The process of standardizing a language; the resulting standard language.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[…] 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 the 75% Hindu population."
Etymology
From German Ausbausprache.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Ausbausprache
Inflected Forms
Ausbaus (plural)
Frequently Paired Words
Ausbauization
abstand