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class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 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level of regard normally accorded a specific <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a> or <a href="/wiki/Dialect" title="Dialect">dialect</a> within a <a href="/wiki/Speech_community" title="Speech community">speech community</a>, relative to other languages or dialects. Prestige <a href="/wiki/Variety_(linguistics)" title="Variety (linguistics)">varieties</a> are language or dialect families which are generally considered by a society to be the most "correct" or otherwise superior. In many cases, they are the <a href="/wiki/Standard_language" title="Standard language">standard form</a> of the language, though there are exceptions, particularly in situations of <a href="/wiki/Covert_prestige" title="Covert prestige">covert prestige</a> (where a <a href="/wiki/Non-standard_dialect" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-standard dialect">non-standard dialect</a> is highly valued). In addition to dialects and languages, prestige is also applied to smaller linguistic features, such as the <a href="/wiki/Pronunciation" title="Pronunciation">pronunciation</a> or usage of words or <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_construction" title="Grammatical construction">grammatical constructs</a>, which may not be distinctive enough to constitute a separate dialect.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The concept of prestige provides one explanation for the phenomenon of variation in form among speakers of a language or languages.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The presence of prestige dialects is a result of the relationship between the prestige of a group of people and the language that they use. Generally, the language or variety that is regarded as more prestigious in that community is the one used by the more prestigious group. The level of prestige a group has can also influence whether the language that they speak is considered its own language or a dialect (implying that it does not have enough prestige to be considered its own language). </p><p>Social class has a correlation with the language that is considered more prestigious, and studies in different communities have shown that sometimes members of a lower social class attempt to emulate the language of individuals in higher social classes to avoid how their distinct language would otherwise construct their identity. The relationship between language and identity construction as a result of prestige influences the language used by different individuals, depending on which groups they do belong or want to belong. </p><p>Sociolinguistic prestige is especially visible in situations where two or more distinct languages are used, and in <a href="/wiki/Multiculturalism" title="Multiculturalism">diverse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Social_stratification" title="Social stratification">socially stratified</a> urban areas, in which there are likely to be speakers of different languages and/or dialects interacting often. The result of language contact depends on the power relationship between the languages of the groups that are in contact. </p><p>The prevailing view among contemporary linguists is that, regardless of perceptions that a dialect or language is "better" or "worse" than its counterparts, when dialects and languages are assessed "on purely linguistic grounds, all languages—and all dialects—have equal merit".<sup id="cite_ref-on_language_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-on_language-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEO'GradyArchibaldAronoffRees-Miller20017_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEO'GradyArchibaldAronoffRees-Miller20017-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Additionally, which varieties, <a href="/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics)" title="Register (sociolinguistics)">registers</a> or features will be considered more prestigious depends on audience and context.<sup id="cite_ref-Trudgill_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trudgill-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are thus the concepts of <i>overt</i> and <i>covert</i> prestige. Overt prestige is related to standard and "formal" language features, and expresses power and status; covert prestige is related more to <a href="/wiki/Vernacular" title="Vernacular">vernacular</a> and often <a href="/wiki/Patois" title="Patois">patois</a>, and expresses solidarity, community and <a href="/wiki/Collective_identity" title="Collective identity">group identity</a> more than authority.<sup id="cite_ref-Labov_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Labov-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Standard_varieties_and_covert_prestige">Standard varieties and covert prestige</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prestige_(sociolinguistics)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Standard varieties and covert prestige"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Standard_language" title="Standard language">Standard language</a></div> <p>Prestige varieties are those that are regarded mostly highly within a society. As such, the standard language, the form promoted by authorities—usually governmental or from those in power—and considered "correct" or otherwise superior, is often the prestige variety. However, there are many exceptions to this rule, such as <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>, in which <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Arabic" title="Egyptian Arabic">Egyptian Arabic</a> is widely used in <a href="/wiki/Mass_media" title="Mass media">mass media</a> aimed at international audiences, while <a href="/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic" title="Modern Standard Arabic">Literary Arabic</a> (also known as Standard Arabic) is a more prestigious form.<sup id="cite_ref-Ibrahim_1986,_p._115_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ibrahim_1986,_p._115-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prestige varieties do not exhibit features, grammatically speaking, which prove them superior in terms of logic, efficacy or aesthetics.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With certain exceptions, they are the language varieties of the prestigious social classes.<sup id="cite_ref-Labov_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Labov-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Therefore, the prestige variety of a given language community or nation-state has symbolic significance and may act as an instrument of political power. </p><p>The notion of a <a href="/wiki/Standard_language" title="Standard language">standard language</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Speech_community" title="Speech community">speech community</a> is related to the prestige of the languages spoken in the community. In general, "greater prestige tends to be attached to the notion of the standard, since it can function in higher domains, and has a written form."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While there are some counterexamples, such as Arabic, "prestigious and standard varieties [tend to] coincide to the extent that the two terms can be used interchangeably."<sup id="cite_ref-Ibrahim_1986,_p._115_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ibrahim_1986,_p._115-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In countries like the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, where <a href="/wiki/Citizen" class="mw-redirect" title="Citizen">citizens</a> speak many different languages and come from a variety of <a href="/wiki/Nationality" title="Nationality">national</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic group">ethnic groups</a>, there is a "<a href="/wiki/Folk_linguistics" title="Folk linguistics">folk linguistic</a>" belief that the most prestigious dialect is the single standard dialect of <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> that all people should speak.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Linguist" class="mw-redirect" title="Linguist">Linguist</a> <a href="/wiki/Rosina_Lippi-Green" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosina Lippi-Green">Rosina Lippi-Green</a> believes that this belief in a standard language defends and rationalizes the preservation of the <a href="/wiki/Social_order" title="Social order">social order</a>, since it equates "nonstandard" or "substandard" language with "nonstandard or substandard human beings."<sup id="cite_ref-on_language_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-on_language-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Linguists believe that no <a href="/wiki/Variety_(linguistics)" title="Variety (linguistics)">variety</a> of language is inherently better than any other, for every language serves its purpose of allowing its users to communicate.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is because every variety of a language is systematic and rule governed. These rules do not contain a hierarchy, thus certain varieties—linguistically—are not placed above another. </p><p>The terms and conditions of prestige assigned to a language variety are subject to change depending on speaker, situation and context. A <a href="/wiki/Dialect" title="Dialect">dialect</a> or variety which is considered prestigious in one context will not carry the same status in another.<sup id="cite_ref-Trudgill_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trudgill-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The relative status of language varies according to audience, situation and other contextual elements such as geographic location. <a href="/wiki/Covert_prestige" title="Covert prestige">Covert prestige</a> refers to relatively high value placed on a non-standard form of language.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Causes">Causes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prestige_(sociolinguistics)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Causes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Globalize plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-globalize" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Globe icon." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_globe_content.svg/48px-Ambox_globe_content.svg.png" decoding="async" width="48" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_globe_content.svg/73px-Ambox_globe_content.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_globe_content.svg/97px-Ambox_globe_content.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">The examples and perspective in this section <b>deal primarily with United States and do not represent a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias">worldwide view</a> of the subject</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> You may <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prestige_(sociolinguistics)&action=edit">improve this section</a>, discuss the issue on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Prestige_(sociolinguistics)" title="Talk:Prestige (sociolinguistics)">talk page</a>, or create a new section, as appropriate.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2023</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Different languages and dialects are accorded prestige based upon factors, including "rich literary heritage, high degree of language modernization, considerable international standing, or the prestige of its speakers".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These, and other attributes and factors contribute to how the language is viewed as being of high prestige,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> leaving a language or dialect with few or none of these attributes to be considered to be of low prestige. </p><p>"Language is intertwined with culture," therefore there is often a strong correlation between the prestige of a group of people and the prestige accorded to the language they speak,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as linguist Laurie Bauer's description of <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a>'s prestige exemplifies this phenomenon: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The prestige accorded to the churchmen, lawyers and scholars who used Latin was transferred to the language itself. Latin was held to be noble and beautiful, not just the thoughts expressed in it or the people who used it. What is called 'beauty' in a language is more accurately seen as a reflection of the prestige of its speakers.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>This phenomenon is not limited to English-speaking populations. In <a href="/wiki/Western_Europe" title="Western Europe">Western Europe</a>, multiple languages were considered to be of high prestige at some time or another, including "<a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Lingua_franca" title="Lingua franca">lingua franca</a></i> and as the language of the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a>; and the 17th-18th century <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Noble_court" class="mw-redirect" title="Noble court">court culture</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Similarly, when British philologist <a href="/wiki/William_Jones_(philologist)" title="William Jones (philologist)">William Jones</a> published: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists: there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit.</p></blockquote> <p>It started a moment in time in which Sanskrit was considered the oldest language in the world, followed by other languages increasing their prestige by claiming to be as close to a presumed <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" title="Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European language</a> or linked to other <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology" title="Proto-Indo-European mythology">Proto-Indo-European mythology</a>, both in Europe and South Asia.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Walt_Wolfram" title="Walt Wolfram">Walt Wolfram</a>, a professor of linguistics at <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_State_University" title="North Carolina State University">North Carolina State University</a>, notes that he "can't think of any situations in the United States where low-prestige groups have high-prestige language systems".<sup id="cite_ref-on_language_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-on_language-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wolfram further emphasizes this in his PBS documentary "Do You Speak American?", and explains how there is a very clear hierarchy in which "modern American English" is at the top, and <a href="/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_English" class="mw-redirect" title="African American Vernacular English">African American Vernacular English</a> (AAVE) is at the bottom, because AAVE is seldom considered "standard" English in academic settings.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The education system is one of the primary agents in emphasizing a "standard" way of speaking. For example, Wolfram's documentary also shows how speakers of AAVE are often corrected by teachers, since it has linguistic features that are different from what has been deemed the "standard." Criticism of AAVE in schools by teachers not only insults the students that speak AAVE, but those insults also put the individuals who taught these students how to speak, such as their family members, in a subordinate position.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In turn, this further reinforces stratification of social groups in a linguistic and social context. In schools around the world that teach English, speaking "proper" English is emphasized, even if other varieties are equally valid and able to communicate the same ideas. In a school in Mumbai, India, there is a large emphasis placed on speaking "good English." Thus, proficiency is not determined by ability to convey ideas, but rather the grammatical adherence of the speaker to the rules used in the "standard" English variety, and speaking English that way.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This not only perpetuates the idea of a "correct" way of speaking in the classroom, but this subordination extends well outside of the classroom. </p><p>Many films and TV shows (especially children's TV shows) use different language varieties for different characters, which constructs their identity in particular ways. For example, the protagonists of <a href="/wiki/Disney" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney">Disney</a> animated films tend to speak <a href="/wiki/General_American_English" title="General American English">Standard American English</a>, while minor characters or antagonists are more likely to speak with other accents.<sup id="cite_ref-Lippi-Green_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lippi-Green-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is true even when characters would not logically speak English, as in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Aladdin_(1992_Disney_film)" title="Aladdin (1992 Disney film)">Aladdin</a></i>, where the title character <a href="/wiki/Aladdin_(Disney_character)" title="Aladdin (Disney character)">Aladdin</a>, his love interest <a href="/wiki/Jasmine_(Aladdin)" title="Jasmine (Aladdin)">Jasmine</a>, and Jasmine's father have American accents, but several other characters do not. Associating the American accent with sympathetic or prestigious characters in children's TV shows/movies can have negative implications, contributing to the formation of stereotypes and biases.<sup id="cite_ref-Lippi-Green_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lippi-Green-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the primary examples of the debate of prestige within the media is the Oakland <a href="/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_English" title="African-American Vernacular English">ebonics</a> controversy of 1996. Illustrating the pervasiveness of public views on socio-educational issues in relation to language diversity, the Oakland, California school board came to a resolution recognizing Ebonics within public education. This proposition recognized Ebonics as a language system in attempts for the city to receive public funding for bilingual situations. Heavy debate arose amongst members of congress, newscasters, and other commentators with relatively little linguistics knowledge. </p><p>The debate was extremely controversial, with beliefs stemming from the same beliefs that govern morality, religion, and ethics. Similar to the beliefs that govern these areas, the debate on Ebonics was believed to be inflexible. The discussion "surfaced foundational beliefs about language and language diversity and exposed an alternative, non-mainstream set of beliefs about language and language variation."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Language_attitudes">Language attitudes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prestige_(sociolinguistics)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Language attitudes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Dialect" title="Dialect">Dialect</a></div> <p>Prestige influences whether a language variety is considered a <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">language</a> or a dialect. In discussing definitions of language, <a href="/wiki/Dell_Hymes" title="Dell Hymes">Dell Hymes</a> wrote that "sometimes two communities are said to have the same, or different, languages on the grounds of <a href="/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility" title="Mutual intelligibility">mutual intelligibility</a>, or lack thereof", but alone, this definition is often insufficient.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Different language varieties in an area exist along a <a href="/wiki/Dialect_continuum" title="Dialect continuum">dialect continuum</a>, and moving <a href="/wiki/Geography" title="Geography">geographically</a> often means a change in the local variety. </p><p>This continuum means that despite the fact that <a href="/wiki/Standard_German" title="Standard German">standard German</a> and <a href="/wiki/Standard_Dutch" class="mw-redirect" title="Standard Dutch">standard Dutch</a> are not mutually intelligible, the speech of people living near the <a href="/wiki/Border" title="Border">border</a> between <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> will more closely resemble that of their neighbors across the border than the standard languages of their respective home countries. Even so, speakers near the border would describe themselves as speaking a variety of their respective standard languages, and the evolution of these dialects tends to mirror that of the standard languages as well.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>That they are classified as such reflects the fact that "language differences are not only marks of differential group membership, but also powerful triggers of group attitudes".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such fuzziness has resulted in the <a href="/wiki/Aphorism" title="Aphorism">aphorism</a> "<a href="/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy" title="A language is a dialect with an army and navy">A language is a dialect with an army and navy</a>." That is, speakers of some language variety with political and social power are viewed as having a distinct language, while "'dialect' is [...] a term that suggests lower-class or rural speech".<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canonical" class="extiw" title="wikt:canonical">canonical</a> example of this is the <a href="/wiki/North_Germanic_languages" title="North Germanic languages">Scandinavian languages</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_language" title="Norwegian language">Norwegian</a>, where language differences "constitute barriers to but do not wholly block communication", but are considered distinct languages because they are spoken in different <a href="/wiki/Country" title="Country">countries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Social_class">Social class</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prestige_(sociolinguistics)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Social class"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While some differences between dialects are <a href="/wiki/Region" title="Region">regional</a> in nature, there are also <a href="/wiki/Social" title="Social">social</a> causes for differences in dialects. Very often, the "public prestige dialect of the elite in a stratified community differs from the dialect(s) of the non-elite strata (<a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">working class</a> and other)".<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In fact, in an article which in part tried to motivate the study of <a href="/wiki/Sociolinguistics" title="Sociolinguistics">sociolinguistics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raven_McDavid" class="mw-redirect" title="Raven McDavid">Raven McDavid</a> wrote that "the importance of language as a mirror of culture can be demonstrated by dialect differences in American English".<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus the relation between the way speakers use a language and their social status is a long recognized tool in sociolinguistics. </p><p>In 1958, one of the earliest studies of the relationship between social differences and dialect differences was published by <a href="/wiki/John_Gumperz" class="mw-redirect" title="John Gumperz">John Gumperz</a>, who studied the speech patterns in <a href="/wiki/Khalapur" title="Khalapur">Khalapur</a>, a small, highly stratified <a href="/wiki/Village" title="Village">village</a> in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>. In all, the village has 31 <a href="/wiki/Caste" title="Caste">castes</a>, ranging from <a href="/wiki/Brahmin" title="Brahmin">Brahmins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rajput" title="Rajput">Rajputs</a> at the top, to <a href="/wiki/Chamar" title="Chamar">Chamars</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bhangi" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhangi">Bhangis</a> at the bottom, and 90% of the overall population was <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a>, with the remaining 10% <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gumperz observed that the different castes were distinguished both <a href="/wiki/Phonology" title="Phonology">phonologically</a> and <a href="/wiki/Word" title="Word">lexically</a>, with each caste having a <a href="/wiki/Vocabulary" title="Vocabulary">vocabulary</a> specific to their <a href="/wiki/Subculture" title="Subculture">subculture</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Remarkably, the speech differences between Hindus and Muslims "are of the same order as those between individual touchable castes and certainly much less important than the variation between touchables and untouchables".<sup id="cite_ref-Gumperz_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gumperz-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gumperz also observed that the lower prestige groups sought to imitate the higher prestige speech patterns and that over time, it had caused the <a href="/wiki/Sociocultural_evolution" title="Sociocultural evolution">evolution</a> of the prestige away from the regional standard, as higher prestige groups sought to differentiate themselves from lower prestige groups.<sup id="cite_ref-Gumperz_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gumperz-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He concluded that in determining speech patterns in this <a href="/wiki/Community" title="Community">community</a>, "the determining factor seems to be informal friendship contacts" rather than work contacts.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An example of this was also observed in a study in Madrid, Spain, where <a href="/wiki/Latin_American_Spanish" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin American Spanish">Latin American Spanish</a>-speakers noticed that certain features of their Spanish were evaluated negatively by local speakers. Spanish varieties spoken in Latin American countries have linguistic differences from the way many locals in Madrid speak. Their use of Latin American Spanish is associated with "symbolic and monetary capital (such as social class and ethnicity)." The study asserted that "To be accepted, therefore, the speakers have to "correct" these "errors" and "adapt" to the local variety of Spanish, which is considered the model to follow. In other words, to be acknowledged as full participants in their respective communities, these participants have to sound like locals." Thus, social class plays a role in determining prestige, impacting the way that Latin American Spanish is acknowledged.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One notable example of the relationship between dialect and social stratification in English is <a href="/wiki/William_Labov" title="William Labov">William Labov</a>'s 1966 study of the <a href="/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English" title="Rhoticity in English">variable pronunciation of <i>r</i></a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. Labov went to three New York City <a href="/wiki/Department_store" title="Department store">department stores</a> that catered to three clearly delineated <a href="/wiki/Socioeconomic" class="mw-redirect" title="Socioeconomic">socioeconomic</a> groups—<a href="/wiki/Saks_Fifth_Avenue" title="Saks Fifth Avenue">Saks</a> (high), <a href="/wiki/Macy%27s" title="Macy's">Macy's</a> (middle), and <a href="/wiki/S._Klein" title="S. Klein">S. Klein</a> (low)—and studied how their employees pronounced the phrase "fourth floor". His results demonstrated that the employees at Saks pronounced <i>r</i> most often, Macy's employees pronounced <i>r</i> less often, and at S. Klein, seventy-nine percent of the respondents said no <i>r</i> at all. Another trend Labov noticed was that at all three of the stores, but Macy's in particular, when prompted to say "fourth floor" a second time, employees were much more likely to pronounce the <i>r</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Labov attributed his findings to the perceived prestige of each dialect. He noted that New York City's "dropped 'r' has its origins in posh British speech", but after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, "with the loss of Britain's imperial status 'r'-less British speech ceased to be regarded as 'prestige speech'".<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1966, when Labov performed his study, pronouncing words like <i>car</i> and <i>guard</i> with <i>r</i> was then considered an element of prestige speech.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This resulted in <a href="/wiki/Middle-class" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle-class">middle-class</a> employees, once made conscious of having to pronounce "fourth floor", altering their pronunciation in order to match that of the high prestige dialect. The prestige given to <i>r</i> was also evident in the <a href="/wiki/Hypercorrection" title="Hypercorrection">hypercorrection</a> observed in lower-class speech. Knowing that <i>r</i>-pronunciation was a prestigious trait, many of the lower-class speakers in another Labov study—in which speakers were asked to read from word lists—added <i>-r</i> to words that did not have an <i>r</i> at all. The difference between this study and the "fourth floor" study was the fact that speakers were closely monitoring their speech, not speaking spontaneously, and were thus careful to add <i>r</i> in an attempt to mimic a higher social class.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another prime example of covert prestige is within popular culture. The pervasiveness of hip hop music and its usage of AAVE has coined many widely used terms. Usage of AAVE has created a certain social capital, or clout, in certain social contexts. Contrastingly, in educational or hierarchical settings, usage of this variety can result in negative connotations. Due to this, practitioners are often perceived as having minimal academic prowess or being lowly educated. They can also be associated with poverty or low economic means. These inherent stigmas and biases impede the AAVE speaker from academic, social, and economic success.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="There are no citations for any of the assertions in this paragraph (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gender_and_covert_prestige">Gender and covert prestige</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prestige_(sociolinguistics)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Gender and covert prestige"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Language_and_gender" title="Language and gender">Language and gender</a></div> <p>Non-standard dialects are usually considered low-prestige, but in some situations dialects "stigmatized by the education system still enjoy a <i>covert</i> prestige among working-class men for the very reason that they are considered incorrect".<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These situations occur when the speaker wants to gain recognition, acceptance, or <a href="/wiki/Social_solidarity" class="mw-redirect" title="Social solidarity">solidarity</a> with a specific—and non-prestigious—group of people, or to signal to other speakers their identification with that group.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The idea of covert prestige was first introduced by William Labov, who noticed that even speakers who used non-standard dialects often believed that their own dialect was "bad" or "inferior". Labov realized that there must be some underlying reason for their use of the dialect, which he identified as a signal of group identity.<sup id="cite_ref-Labov_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Labov-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One example is a 1998 study on the use of word-final <i>-ing</i> versus <i>-in</i> among college <a href="/wiki/Fraternities_and_sororities" title="Fraternities and sororities">fraternity</a> men in the United States. The fraternity men used "-in" rather than "-ing," from which the author concluded that the men used <i>-in</i> to demonstrate what they saw as working-class behavioral traits, such as 'hard-working' and 'casual,' thus creating a specific identity for themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a study by Elaine Chun, it was noted that even though the use of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is not viewed as the standard in many American schools, and thus is often corrected by teachers, there are some instances where non-African Americans use AAVE to construct their identity in a particular way and enjoy covert prestige in the African American speech community. The study pointed out that "mainstream uses of AAVE 'slang' are especially prevalent in social circles that desire to create and project a heterosexual masculinity," and included examples of a Korean-American student using AAVE to gain recognition/acceptance in the African American speech community. This underscores that the relative status of language varies according to audience.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Likewise, in studies of the speech patterns in <a href="/wiki/British_English" title="British English">British English</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Trudgill" title="Peter Trudgill">Peter Trudgill</a> observed that more working-class women spoke the standard dialect than men.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Farida Abu-Haidar performed a similar study in <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> of prestige in the Arabic language, after which she concluded that in Baghdadi Arabic, women are more conscious of prestige than are men.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other areas in which this has been observed include <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong">Guangdong</a> in <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As explanation, Trudgill suggests that for men, there is covert prestige associated with speaking the working-class dialect.<sup id="cite_ref-Trudgill_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trudgill-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In fact, he observed men claiming to speak a <i>less</i> prestigious dialect than that which they actually spoke. According to this interpretation then, "women's use of prestige features simply conforms to the ordinary sociolinguistic order, while men deviate from what is expected."<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elizabeth Gordon, in her study of New Zealand, suggested instead that women used higher prestige forms because of the association of <a href="/wiki/Human_female_sexuality" title="Human female sexuality">sexual</a> <a href="/wiki/Immorality" title="Immorality">immorality</a> with lower-class <a href="/wiki/Woman" title="Woman">women</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whatever the cause, women across many cultures seem more likely than men to modify their speech towards the prestige dialect. </p><p>Though women use prestige dialects more than men, the same gender preference for prestige languages does not seem to exist. A study of <a href="/wiki/Diglossia" title="Diglossia">diglossic</a> societies by John Angle and Sharlene Hesse-Biber showed that the poorer men were more likely to speak the prestige language than were poorer women, even though women were more particularly "drawn to the language of the rich."<sup id="cite_ref-angle_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-angle-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One explanation put forth for this is that poorer men are more likely to have the means of acquiring a second language than poorer women as a result of having "greater exposure" and "greater economic motivation."<sup id="cite_ref-angle_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-angle-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Language_contact">Language contact</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prestige_(sociolinguistics)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Language contact"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When different language varieties come into contact, a variety of relationships can form between the two, all typically influenced by prestige. When they have equal power or prestige, they form <a href="/wiki/Stratum_(linguistics)#Adstratum" title="Stratum (linguistics)">adstratum</a>, as exemplified by <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> and <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Norse</a>, which shared elements with each other more or less equally. </p><p>Far more common is for the two languages to have an unequal power relationship, as is the case of many colonial language contact situations. Languages that have a higher status in relation to a certain group often manifest themselves in <a href="/wiki/Loanword" title="Loanword">word borrowing</a>. One example is in English, which features many French words, as a result of the historical prestige of French. Another potential result of such contact relationships includes the creation of a <a href="/wiki/Pidgin" title="Pidgin">pidgin</a> or eventually <a href="/wiki/Creole_language" title="Creole language">creole</a> through <a href="/wiki/Nativization" title="Nativization">nativization</a>. In the case of pidgins and creoles, it is usually noted that the low prestige language provides the phonology while the high prestige language provides the <a href="/wiki/Lexicon" title="Lexicon">lexicon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grammar" title="Grammar">grammatical structure</a>. </p><p>In addition to forming a new language, known as a creole, <a href="/wiki/Language_contact" title="Language contact">language contact</a> can result in changes, such as <a href="/wiki/Language_convergence" title="Language convergence">language convergence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Language_shift" title="Language shift">language shift</a> or <a href="/wiki/Language_death" title="Language death">language death</a>. Language convergence is when two languages have been exposed for a long period of time and they begin to have more properties in common. Language shift is when a speaker shifts from speaking a lower prestige dialect to a higher prestige dialect. Language death can happen in many ways, one of which is when speakers of a language die off, and there are no new generations learning to speak this language. The intensity of the contact between the two languages and their relative prestige levels influence the degree to which a language experiences lexical borrowing and changes to the <a href="/wiki/Morphology_(linguistics)" title="Morphology (linguistics)">morphology</a>, phonology, <a href="/wiki/Syntax" title="Syntax">syntax</a>, and overall structure of the language.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Language_structure">Language structure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prestige_(sociolinguistics)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Language structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Diglossia" title="Diglossia">Diglossia</a></div> <p>When two languages with an asymmetrical power relationship come into contact, such as through <a href="/wiki/Colony" title="Colony">colonization</a> or in a <a href="/wiki/Refugee" title="Refugee">refugee</a> situation, the creole that results is typically largely based on the prestige language; as noted above, linguists have observed that the low-prestige language usually provides the phonology while the high-prestige language provides the lexicon and grammatical structure. Over time, continued contact between the creole and the prestige language may result in <a href="/wiki/Decreolization" title="Decreolization">decreolization</a>, in which the creole begins to more closely resemble the prestige language. Decreolization thus creates a <a href="/wiki/Post-creole_continuum" title="Post-creole continuum">creole continuum</a>, ranging from an <a href="/wiki/Acrolect" class="mw-redirect" title="Acrolect">acrolect</a> (a version of the creole that is very similar to the prestige language), to <a href="/wiki/Mesolect" class="mw-redirect" title="Mesolect">mesolects</a> (decreasingly similar versions), to the <a href="/wiki/Basilect" class="mw-redirect" title="Basilect">basilect</a> (the most "conservative" creole). An example of decreolization described by Hock and Joseph is African American Vernacular English (AAVE), in which older, more conservative versions preserve <a href="/wiki/Feature_(linguistics)" title="Feature (linguistics)">features</a> such as the <a href="/wiki/Perfective_aspect" title="Perfective aspect">completive marker</a> <i>done</i> while newer, less conservative versions do not.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some instances of contact between languages with different prestige levels have resulted in diglossia, a phenomenon in which a community uses a high prestige language or dialect in certain situations, usually for <a href="/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">newspapers</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a>, on <a href="/wiki/Campus" title="Campus">university campuses</a>, for religious ceremonies, and on <a href="/wiki/Television" title="Television">television</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Radio" title="Radio">radio</a>, but uses a low prestige language or dialect for other situations, often in conversation in the home or in <a href="/wiki/Letter_(message)" title="Letter (message)">letters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Comic_strip" title="Comic strip">comic strips</a>, and in <a href="/wiki/Popular_culture" title="Popular culture">popular culture</a>. Linguist <a href="/wiki/Charles_A._Ferguson" title="Charles A. Ferguson">Charles A. Ferguson</a>'s 1959 article "Diglossia" listed the following examples of diglossic societies: in the Middle East and North Africa, <a href="/wiki/Standard_Arabic" class="mw-redirect" title="Standard Arabic">Standard Arabic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vernacular_Arabic" class="mw-redirect" title="Vernacular Arabic">vernacular Arabics</a>; in Greece, <a href="/wiki/Katharevousa" title="Katharevousa">Katharevousa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dhimotiki" class="mw-redirect" title="Dhimotiki">Dhimotiki</a>; in Switzerland, <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Standard_German" title="Swiss Standard German">Swiss Standard German</a> and <a href="/wiki/Swiss_German" title="Swiss German">Swiss German</a>; and in Haiti, <a href="/wiki/Standard_French" title="Standard French">Standard French</a> and <a href="/wiki/Haitian_Creole" title="Haitian Creole">Haitian Creole</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In most African countries, a European language serves as the official, prestige language (Standard French, English, <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>), while local languages (<a href="/wiki/Wolof_language" title="Wolof language">Wolof</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bambara_language" title="Bambara language">Bambara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_language" title="Yoruba language">Yoruba</a>) or creoles (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Ivorian_French&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ivorian French (page does not exist)">Ivorian French</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_English" title="Nigerian English">Nigerian English</a>) serve as everyday languages of communication. </p><p>In diglossic societies, the prestigious language tends to conservatively resist change over time while the low-prestige language, the local vernacular, undergoes normal language change. For instance, Latin, the high prestige language of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> for many centuries, underwent minimal change while the everyday low prestige spoken languages evolved significantly. If, however, the two languages are spoken freely, the prestige language may undergo <a href="/wiki/Vernacular" title="Vernacular">vernacularization</a> and begin to incorporate vernacular features. An example is <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a>, an ancient prestige language that has incorporated the vernacular pronunciations of <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_affricate" title="Voiceless postalveolar affricate">tʃ</a>]</span> and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[b]</span> for word-initial <i>y-</i> and <i>v-</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The prestige language may also change under the influence of specific regional dialects in a process known as <a href="/wiki/Regionalisation" title="Regionalisation">regionalization</a>. For example, in medieval times, <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin" title="Ecclesiastical Latin">Ecclesiastical Latin</a> developed different forms in countries such as Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, Catalonia, as well as other Roman Catholic nations, notably in pronunciation – see <a href="/wiki/Latin_regional_pronunciation" title="Latin regional pronunciation">Latin regional pronunciation</a>. Some of these differences were minor, such as <i>c</i> before <i>i</i> and <i>e</i> being pronounced <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[tʃ]</span> in Italy but <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[s]</span> in France, but after English underwent the <a href="/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift" title="Great Vowel Shift">Great Vowel Shift</a> between 1200 and 1600, the vowel system in England became nearly unrecognizable to its European ecclesiastic counterparts.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prestige_(sociolinguistics)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit 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class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHockJoseph1996">Hock & Joseph 1996</a>, p. 341</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="General_and_cited_references">General and cited references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prestige_(sociolinguistics)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: General and cited references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output 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