The phrase "a literary dialect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific form of language or speech that is characteristic of a particular group or region, often found in literature.
Example: "The author skillfully employed a literary dialect to bring authenticity to the characters' voices in the novel."
Alternatives: "a narrative dialect" or "a fictional dialect".
Less interest attaches to Jaina canonical works, which were written in an adapted and stabilized literary dialect called Ardhamāgadhī (Semi-Māgadhī, Māgadhī being the dialect of the ancient kingdom of Magadha, in present day Bihār).
The earliest literary tradition had a Western Yiddish dialectal base; writing in this literary dialect continued into the Modern Yiddish period long after the major population centres had shifted to the east.
Many can be found in literary dialect representations, such as by Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Walter Scott, DH Lawrence, or Alan Bleasdale ("Gissa job!").
Cavafy's Greek is without perfect English equivalent, since into its straight demotic it blends the government-promoted literary dialect known as Katharevousa ("purified").
Śaurasenī is the literary dialect used for conversation between higher personages other than the king and his captains in the drama, while other dialects are used by lower personages.
The language of the early Jaina canon, the final version of which was made in the 5th or 6th century ce, is called Ardhamāgadhī ('half Māgadhī'); Jainas also used another literary dialect, called Jaina Māhārāṣṭrī by modern scholars, in noncanonical works.
Agbabi, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants and a former writer in residence at both Eton College and a tattoo studio, was well positioned to capture street, regional, and literary dialects in what she called an "update" of the "massive gender and race differences" in Britain since Chaucer's time.
Three literary dialects were in use in the 19th century: a Low Lithuanian dialect along the Baltic Sea coast, an East High Lithuanian poetic dialect, and a West High Lithuanian dialect, used primarily in the region bordering East Prussia.
Many writers joined in his attempt to revitalize the Lowland Scottish dialect as a literary language.
