Standard

Write short notes on Standard and provide an example

Definition
-taught by schools, used in official and important domains, used in print

Why the need for standard?
-result of many varieties/dialects of a particular language
-arise when there is an active intervention from the society to promote the standardized version of a particular dialect to be selected to be developed.

Process of standardization
-selection
-codification
-process of evaluation
-acceptance

Eg:
Beijing Chinese is selected to be the administrative language in Chinese. Since then. it has been accepted as the 'Standard'