This is the concluding section of Ana Deumert and Wim Vandenbussche’s paper about the study of language standardization. This website discusses the subject deeply and broadly, approaching many topics and being appropriated for researches, teachers and students of language. The authors related language standardization with language contact and they also mention the process of “destandardization”. They discuss the standardization as a historical and social process. Some subtitles of the text are: Standardization as a tool for language maintenance?; Alphabetization, mass literacy and the diffusion of the standard language.

http://ftp.vub.ac.be/~wvdbussc/deumertvandenbussche2.pdf