Variant: the national standard a page or a voice follows
A variant is a standardised national form of a language, such as the Brazilian or the European form of Portuguese. It is the level at which audiences accept or reject a release, and almost nothing in this register states one. As of 2026-09-22.
| Language | Why the variant matters | Named by any declared code here |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | Two national norms with very different audiences | Yes, three vendors name Brazil |
| Spanish | Castilian against Latin American forms | Once, naming Spain |
| French | European against Canadian | Once, naming France |
| Chinese | Two writing systems and several norms | Yes, one region and one script |
Inclusion rule. The languages read here where the national variant changes what an audience hears or reads. Languages with one national standard are not listed. Order. Fixed order, largest audience split first.
1It is the level audiences react to
A viewer in Mexico hearing Castilian Spanish, or a viewer in Lisbon hearing Brazilian Portuguese, notices within a line. Distributors have known this for decades and commission separate versions for it.
So a language list that does not state its variants is silent on the property that decides whether a release is usable. That is true of every voice figure in this register.
2On pages it is answered occasionally, in voices never
Three vendors here name Brazil for Portuguese, one names Spain for Spanish, one names France for French. Those are declarations about marketing pages, and they are the only variant statements in the register.
Not one published voice list or count names a variant of any language. The column where variants matter most is the column with no variant information in it at all.
3Nobody declares the larger side of two big splits
No counted declaration here names Latin American Spanish, and none names Canadian French. In both cases the variant that is named is the smaller audience.
One vendor does declare a Mexican Spanish alternate, and the counting rule discards it because it sits on a subdomain. That is recorded on the vendor page, because it is the only trace of either market in the whole column.
A definition, not a measurement: no vendor figure appears here that is not also in the register. The variant split per language is recorded on each language page.
Nearby terms: Accent, Mutual intelligibility. The whole vocabulary is at terms; nothing on this page is a claim about a named product.