1. Name the languages which became the literary languages in prose and poetry.
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A literary language is the form of a language used in its literary writing. It can be either a non-standard dialect or standardized variety of the language. It can sometimes differ noticeably from the various spoken lects, but difference between literary and non-literary forms is greater in some languages than in others. Where there is a strong divergence between a written form and the spoken vernacular, the language is said to exhibit diglossia.The understanding of the term differs from one linguistic tradition to another, and is dependent on the terminological conventions adopted.[1][2] Notably, in Eastern European and Slavic linguistics, the term "literary language" has also been used as a synonym of "standard language".[3][4][5][6]
A related concept is liturgical writing, which is the language or form of language used in the liturgy of some religions.