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There are dialects that could be considered different languages due to long periods of isolation and geographical separation from the central dialects of Svealand and Götaland that came to constitute the base for the standard ''Rikssvenska''. Dialects such as [[Elfdalian]], [[Jamtlandic dialects|Jamtlandic]], [[Westrobothnian]] and [[Gutnish]] all differ as much, or more, from standard Swedish than the standard varieties of [[Danish language|Danish]]. Some of them have a standardized orthography, but the Swedish government has not granted any of them official recognition as regional languages and continues to look upon them as dialects of Swedish. Most of them are severely endangered and spoken by elderly people in the countryside. In the case of Westrobothnian, the pejorative "bondska" is widespread, derived from the word for peasant and literally meaning "farmish", thus leading people to believe that it has something to do with peasantry or farming although the dialects have been spoken in all parts of society for over 1000 years.
=== Tamil ===
[[Tamil language|Tamil]] has two varieties, literary Tamil and spoken Tamil. The literary variant is used in books, poetry, speeches and news broadcasts while the spoken variant is used in everyday speech, online messaging and movies. The literary variant is largely based on [[Middle Tamil language|Middle Tamil]] with a few modifications such as the usage English loanwords for modern inventions. There is a movement of [[Linguistic purism|linguistic purism]] in Tamil due to [[Tamil nationalism]], which emphasizes on the literary variant being the "correct" form of the language and the spoken dialects being "corrupt" or "impure".<ref>{{Cite journal|jstor=414796|title=Diglossia: A Study of the Theory, with Application to Tamil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | last=Schiffman | first=Harold F. |
title=A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil | publisher=Cambridge University Press | year=1999 | place=Cambridge | isbn=0-521-64074-1
| url=http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/book.html| page=2}}</ref>
=== Others ===
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