(2) The areal axis. Most languages of the world display a variety of dialects.
With those languages with a standardized norm, there often arises a case of
bidialectal diglossia whereby the "local" dialect is, for example, used at-r
home and the "standard" dialect i.e. the standardized form of the language, 1
is spoken at school. There are problems here (cf. Trudgill, 1975) but the ',,
teacher does at least know what standard he or she is supposed to be....;
teaching. With a non-standardized language showing great dialectal variation,
the fundamental problem of the norm is most acute. One may find that
the speakers of a non-standardized language consider the language inferior
to the standardized dominant language, but that within the non-standardized
language each speaker considers his dialect to be the only correct norm,
making him reject the choice of any other norm. For NF, for example, Wilts
(1979, p. 198) writes: