During the early part of the Middle Ages Latin was the literary language of Italy, and the aim of the best writers of the time was to restore Roman culture.
It was woman's services, not man's, that made the Japanese a literary language, and under her influence the mobile forms of speech crystallized into perennial beauty.
Master and pupil became firm friends and worked together for years to raise the home-speech to the dignity of a literary language.
Somewhat analogous to Urdu, in that it is a literary language used by the educated classes for intercommunication throughout a polygot empire, is the Mandarin Chinese.
First arose the question of principle: Should Volapük aim at being a literary language, capable of expressing all the finer shades of thought and feeling?
As a literary language, it is far better than Chinook or Pidgin, far worse than English or Greek.
The comprehension of literary language is above all else the power of translating suggestion into imaginative reality.
The only point to be made is that here we have another well defined division of literary language.
The most obvious characteristic in literary language is that of allusion.
I spoke of this as an extreme instance of the use of this form of literary language, because the knowledge needed to render it intelligible is more unusual and special than that generally appealed to by writers.
It has been a much debated question how far Germany in Middle High German times possessed or aspired to possess a Schriftsprache or literary language.
Thus the aspirations of Low Germany to have a literary language of its own were at an early stage crushed.
Several writers of talent, natives of Malo-Russia, endeavoured to establish their language as a literary language in opposition to the Great Russian.
During the last ten years of the eighteenth century, a more successful attempt was made to elevate the Slovakian dialect spoken on the frontiers of Moravia, and which approaches the Bohemian language most, to the rank of a literary language.
It is probable, that at this time the Slovaks became familiar with the Bohemian as a literary language; which from its kindred genius and its similarity of forms was perfectly intelligible, and must have been highly acceptable to them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "literary language" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
