In the mid-19th century a literary Renaissance, led by the Félibrige and based on the dialect of the Arles-Avignon region, lent new lustre to Occitan, and a modern standard dialect was established.
In 1939, Dr. Ida C. Ward led a research expedition on Igbo dialects which could possibly be used as a basis of a standard Igbo dialect, also known as Central Igbo.
The language itself for a time gained a dual nature with the primary spoken language, the constantly developing vernacular Koine (eventually evolving into demotic Greek), existing alongside an older literary language with Koine eventually evolving into the standard dialect.
Today, they form a distinctive community, united through race, culture and language, even though they have no standard dialect.
Sumenep is the standard dialect for educational purposes.
The language has several dialects; Mughalbandi (Coastal Oriya) is the standard dialect and the language of education.
The result is an Internet software suite that not surprisingly primarily reflects the interests of the world's Web-page designers, meaning that it can understand every standard dialect of Web-page programming -- HTML 4, XML, CSS, DOM and so on.
Each of the major state languages has several dialects in addition to the standard dialect adopted for official purposes, and Hindi has not only dialects but also several varieties according to the mother tongue of the area; e.g., Bombay Hindi and Calcutta Hindi.
This potential for change can contribute to both dialect leveling, when the standard dialect representations outweigh the local dialect representations, and dialect divergence, when the local dialect representations are deflected away from competing standard variants.
Stylistic trouble: certain forms of expression (for example, standard dialect) are preferred by the teacher, but she/he does not explain why.
