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

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

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

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

liturgical language of Judaism, but also as a literary language, especially in Spain, leading to the development of various dialects of literary Medieval

classical language is any language with an independent literary tradition and a large body of ancient written literature. Classical languages are usually

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

tradition, it is known as leššānā ʔatīqā (lit. 'the old language') or saprāyā (lit. 'scribal or literary'). It emerged during the first century AD from a local

viewed as a single language because of a shared culture and common literary language, but sometimes considered multiple languages. Conversely, colloquial

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