Monocentric Language

The converse case is a monocentric language, which has only one formally standardized version.

Examples include Japanese and Russian.^[5]

In some cases, the different standards of a pluricentric language may be elaborated until they become autonomous languages, as happened with Malaysian and Indonesian, and with Hindi and Urdu.^[5]

The same process is under way in Serbo-Croatian.^[5][6]