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.
As the translations prepared by them were copied by speakers of other dialects, the hybrid literary language Old Church Slavonic was created.
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.
Even when the literary language is spoken, however, it is normally only spoken in its pure form when reading a prepared text out loud.
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).
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.