Dear Robert and Piya,

thanks a lot.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- Piya Tan wrote:
Robert,

I thought the term is Kunstsprache, perhaps Dichtersprache is
Bechert's.

P.

> Robert Didham wrote:
>
> By vernacular I usually mean a spoken language rather than a

literary language...

>
> These "literary" languages did not have to be written - oral

literature is often transmitted in stylised forms of languages which
helps preserve their integrity over time. Not sure if there has been
a lot done on this aspect for Pali, but there is at least some
excellent work (Mark Allon's thesis springs to mind) and I am sure
much more widely read people than I could point us to the right
places.

>
> Metta
> Robert