Rees-Miller. eds. (2001) Contemporary Linguistics. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Christopher D. Land (21 February 2013), "Varieties of the Greek language", in Stanley...

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistics is based on a theoretical as well as a descriptive study of language and is also interlinked...

of the system Variety (universal algebra), classes of algebraic structures defined by equations in universal algebra Variety (linguistics), a specific...

a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects. Prestige varieties are language or dialect families which are generally considered by a society...

variation Language change Speech community Variable rules analysis Variety (linguistics) Meecham, Marjory; Rees-Miller, Janie (2001). "Language in social...

linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include:...

speakers' native variety. Despite any such stigma, modern linguistics regards all nonstandard dialects as grammatically full-fledged varieties of a language...

standard language (or standard variety, standard dialect, standardized dialect or simply standard) is a language variety that has undergone substantial...

term refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The dialects or varieties of a particular...

definition. Linguistics textbooks may use the term tenor instead, but increasingly prefer the term style—"we characterise styles as varieties of language...