Literary language is the form (register) of a language used when writing in a formal, academic, or particularly polite tone; when speaking or writing in...

result, the characteristic style of the language is comparatively terse. Starting in the 2nd century CE, use of Literary Chinese spread to the countries surrounding...

pluricentric language mainly used by Croats. It is the national official language and literary standard of Croatia, one of the official languages of Bosnia...

A classical language is any language with an independent literary tradition and a large body of ancient written literature. In the context of traditional...

Hebrew language experienced a full-scale revival as a spoken and literary language. The creation of a modern version of the ancient language was led...

in favour of other languages. The current standard form of Russian is generally regarded as the modern Russian literary language (современный русский...

as their liturgical language, and by the 18th century, Kajkavian had become the standard language of Prekmurje. Moreover, literary Kajkavian was also used...

Kartvelian language; it also serves as the literary language or lingua franca for speakers of related languages. It is the official language of Georgia...

Chinese is sometimes viewed as a single language because of a shared culture and common literary language. It is also common to describe various Chinese...

religious and literary language of Sassanian Iran, itself a continuation of Old Persian, the language of the Achaemenids. Unlike the other languages and dialects...

Ukrainian language (українська мова, ukrainska mova, IPA: [ʊkrɐˈjinʲsʲkɐ ˈmɔʋɐ]) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken...

türkīsi), is an extinct Turkic language that was once widely spoken across Central Asia. It remained the shared literary language in the region until the early...

modern era, it has mostly survived as a spoken lect and is not a literary language. Deccani differs from northern Hindustani sociolects due to archaisms...

and some literary works such as those of the comic playwrights Plautus and Terence and author Petronius. Late Latin is the literary language from the...

In literary theory, literariness is the organisation of language which through special linguistic and formal properties distinguishes literary texts from...

draws literary, political, and technical vocabulary from Persian, formal Hindi draws these aspects from Sanskrit; consequently, the two languages' mutual...

linguists: various questions related to classification of literary and vernacular varieties of this language; issues related to meanings and proper uses of various...

particularly literary texts, and/or spoken language in regard to their linguistic and tonal style, where style is the particular variety of language used by...

Grafing. It was a literary language in Central and Eastern Europe that left a rich literary inheritance. The language became the main language (lingua franca)...

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the use of Scots as a literary language was revived by several prominent Scotsmen[citation needed] such as...

and it remained the literary language of Egypt until the Roman period. By the time of classical antiquity, the spoken language had evolved into Demotic...

English-language literary figure of his age, illustrates, in his use of back-translation, translators' influence on the evolution of languages and literary styles...

and Classical Syriac ܠܫܢܐ ܥܬܝܩܐ (in its literary and liturgical form), is an Aramaic language. The language is a dialect that emerged during the first...

"Turki", as the literary language of Uzbekistan in the 1920s.[citation needed] Uzbek is spoken as either a native or second language by 33 million people...

nearly two centuries of activist and academic labor, during which a literary Rusyn language was desired, discussed, and addressed (time and again) by a dedicated...

"literature" cannot be defined or that it can refer to any use of language. Literary fiction is a term used to describe fiction that explores any facet...

are classified typologically as distinct languages. The standard Italian language has a poetic and literary origin in the works of Tuscan writers of the...

the literary language. In the past, it was the court language of the Ahom kingdom from the 17th century. Along with other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Assamese...

variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928...

official religious and literary language of the Sassanian Empire (224–651 AD), itself a continuation of Old Persian, the language of the Achaemenids (550–330...