Ideas were the common property of the literate elite.

He became a writer for various magazines (including West Africa) in the 1970s and was well known among Nigeria's literate elites.

The literate elite therefore shared a common culture and set of values.

Power was vested therefore, in a scribal and literate, religious elite.

As a nation, we are still shedding the durable assumption that a literate elite would make the decisions for a less educated majority.

Until the early twentieth century, Hangul was denigrated as vulgar by the literate elite who preferred the traditional hanja writing system.

Less frequently, gods are identified by a written label or dedication; such labels would only have been intended for the literate elites.

And the tiny pre-modern literate elites were not independent breeding populations.

The community in recent years has developed a vibrant social life and a literate elite.

The dominance of Latin among the literate elite may obscure the continuity of spoken languages, since all cultures within the Roman Empire were predominantly oral.