ausbau adjective 1noun 1forms 2 adjective1 •Constituting a standard; being deliberately shaped and standardized; having the social, political, or legal status of a standard language.Thus the Hindi/Urdu situation was created by an ausbau process, not unlike the process which created Norwegian as distinct from Danish, and Afrikaans as distinct from Dutch. — 1988 noun1 •The process of standardizing a language; the resulting standard language. formsAusbaus · ausbaus
