Editing Pluricentric language (section)

=== German ===
{{Main|Standard German}}
[[Standard German]] is often considered an asymmetric pluricentric language;{{Sfn | Ammon | 1995 | pp = 484–499}} [[German Standard German|the standard used in Germany]] is often considered dominant, mostly because of the sheer number of its speakers, compared to the [[Austrian Standard German]] and [[Swiss Standard German]] varieties. Although there is a uniform stage pronunciation based on a manual by [[Theodor Siebs]] that is used in theatres, and, nowadays to a lesser extent, in radio and television news all across German-speaking countries, this is not true for the standards applied at public occasions in Austria, South Tyrol and Switzerland, which differ in [[pronunciation]], [[vocabulary]], and sometimes even [[grammar]]. (In Switzerland, the letter [[ß]] has been removed from the alphabet, with ''ss'' as its replacement.) The varieties of Standard German used in those regions are to some degree influenced by the respective [[dialect]]s (but by no means identical to them), by specific cultural traditions (e.g. in culinary vocabulary, which differs markedly across the German-speaking area of Europe), and by different terminology employed in law and administration. A list of Austrian terms for certain food items has even been incorporated into [[EU law]], even though it is clearly incomplete.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ec.europa.eu/translation/german/guidelines/documents/austrian_expressions_de.pdf |title=Protokoll Nr. 10 über die Verwendung spezifisch österreichischer Ausdrücke der deutschen Sprache im Rahmen der Europäischen Union |publisher=European Commission |access-date=13 November 2015 |language=de |trans-title=Protocol number 10 on the usage of specific Austrian terms of the German language within the European Union |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305081116/http://ec.europa.eu/translation/german/guidelines/documents/austrian_expressions_de.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2016 }}</ref> Scholarly scepticism in German dialectology about the pluricentric status of German has led some linguists to detect a [[One Standard German Axiom]] (OSGA) as active in the field.