Schriftsprachen.
Philology.
The conventional and standardized written variety of a given language (or occasionally a dialect).
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R.S.1889
standard1904
Received Standard1913
Schriftsprache1931
1931 K. Malone in Mod. Lang. Notes XLVI. 8 Caxton's importance for the English language lies chiefly in the part which he played in the standardization of our schriftsprache.
1934 C. L. Wrenn in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1933 85 There was a common and universally used West-Saxon Schriftsprache in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries, as well known in York as in Canterbury.
1935 Ess. & Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Michigan Publ. Lang. & Lit. XIII) 281 The rise of a literary language, divorcing to some degree spelling and pronunciation, arouses our curiosity in regard to the extent of adoption of these voiceless inflections within the Schriftsprache.
1959 A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. 11 The vernacular ninth-century charters show a steady tendency towards the development of a local Schriftsprache, with increasing avoidance of Anglian spellings, and care to express local sound-changes.
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