Many studies have shown that for most speakers, there is a prestige variety of vernacular Arabic.

The prestige variety is Nuosu, which is written in the Yi script.

Khana language (also known as Ogoni proper), the prestige variety of the Ogoni languages in Nigeria.

Egland (1978) found 73% intelligibility with Huautla, the prestige variety of Mazatec.

It is closest to the prestige variety of Dogon, Jamsay tegu, though speakers deny they are related and understand little of it.

Lampung Api is the prestige variety.

Colloquial readings are usually used in informal settings because their usage in formal settings has been supplanted by the readings of the prestige varieties.

The prestige variety of Mazatec, spoken in Huautla de Jimenez.

It is the prestige variety of the Masenrempulu languages.

Khana (Kana), or Ogoni proper, is the prestige variety of the Ogoni languages.