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literary language

Noun

Meaning

(literature) A register of a language that is used in literary writing.

(sociolinguistics, Slavistics) A language variety used as an institutional norm in a community, opposed to vernacular dialects; a standard language.

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As a literary language, Sardinian is gaining importance, despite heated debate about the lack of a commonly acknowledged standard orthography and controversial proposed solutions to this problem. Source: Internet

As the translations prepared by them were copied by speakers of other dialects, the hybrid literary language Old Church Slavonic was created. Source: Internet

However, in the Republic of Macedonia, a separate Macedonian literary language has been in existence since 1944, and most scholars now accept Macedonian as a separate language. Source: Internet

Even when the literary language is spoken, however, it is normally only spoken in its pure form when reading a prepared text out loud. Source: Internet

In practice, however, modern authors almost never write in pure Classical Arabic, instead using a literary language with its own grammatical norms and vocabulary, commonly known as Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Source: Internet

Despite attempts to write in Haitian Creole dating back to the eighteenth century due to its unofficial status, French has always been the exclusive literary language of Haiti. Source: Internet

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