Kazan Tatar is no longer classified as an endangered language, although it is still a low prestige language.

English was the prestige language while the Irish language was associated with poverty and disfranchisement.

Though women use prestige dialects more frequently than do men, the same gender preference for prestige languages does not seem to exist.

If, however, the two languages are spoken freely, the prestige language may undergo vernacularization and begin to incorporate vernacular features.

The prestige language may also change under the influence of specific regional dialects in a process known as regionalization.

The term is also applied to works not written in the standard and/or prestige language of their time and place.

Within Morocco, French, one of the country's two prestige languages, is often used for business, diplomacy, and government.

They may have served as prestige languages, coexisting with other dialects in some areas.

What seems to be changing is the prestige language of choice.

For example, when a central authority nationalizes one language, that attaches economic and social advantages to the prestige language.