Language
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...North Chinese vernacular (Mandarin), English, Spanish, Arabic...a language constitute its dialects. All languages are continuously...communities a special official dialect of a language that is theoretically...unchanged. This official dialect is the school form of a language...development of some local dialect that has been accorded prestige...