Language is one of the fundamental things for our daily living. The main reason behind development a society is communication and there is no doubt the language is the best way of communication so far. So we can say that the contribution of language for human civilization is enormous.
As a language community a community can be own difference of expression, attitude, tone, accent. That is making a language variation in same community. This is called dialect.
Before the discussion of difference between language and dialect it is essential to know what language is and what dialect is.
Language
Traditionally we can say language is sound which uttered by our vocal organ.
But many of linguist are not satisfied with this definition they have describe language as bellow-
Sapir, Edward says,
Language is pure human and non instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by mean of a system of voluntarily produced symbols.
Bloomfield has described language as
Totality of the utterance that can be made in a speech community.
Linguist Edgar H.sturtevant says,
A language is a system of a social group co-operate and interact.
So in collaboration we can stand upon these point discussed bellow-
1. No sounds but sound which uttered by human vocal organ is the main element of language.
2. Not every single sound uttered by human vocal organ is language but sound which really denote symbol of object and emotion.
Besides this a language must has some other characteristics which are shown bellow-
1. used by a special community which share cultural bonding.
2. Language is a self acted behavior of human.
3. The vocal way of communication.
4. It can be regular or irregular.
5. Language follows some rules which can be change.
Standard language: standard language also known as standard dialect or standardized dialect is a language variety used by a group of people in their public discourse or communication.