A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds or (depending on one's definition) manual gestures, as opposed to a written language. An oral language or vocal language is a language produced with the vocal tract in contrast with a sign language, which is produced with the body and hands.
A spokenlanguage is a language produced by articulate sounds or (depending on one's definition) manual gestures, as opposed to a written language. An...
change and language shift. In some areas, there is no reliable census data, the data is not current, or the census may not record languagesspoken, or record...
change and language shift. In some areas, there is no reliable census data, the data is not current, or the census may not record languagesspoken, or record...
humans convey meaning, both in spoken and written forms, and may also be conveyed through sign languages. Human language is characterized by its cultural...
most widely spokenlanguage of the United Kingdom, but a number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken. Regional indigenous languages are Scots...
languages have always been spoken in Canada. Prior to Confederation, the territories that would become Canada were home to over 70 distinct languages...
Chinese period. The languages included are all considered minority languages in China and are spoken in the Southwest. The languages are: Bai Cai-Long:...
syllables, morphemes, or words. However, written language is not merely spoken or signed language written down, though it can approximate that. Instead...
Chinese eventually replaced many of the languages previously dominant in these areas, and forms of the languagespoken in different regions began to diverge...
Languagesspoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languagesspoken by 78.05% of Indians...
Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites...
pronounced [ɡudʒəˈɾɑːtiː]) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. Gujarati...
a list of lists of languages. SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages. The International Organization...
most widely spokenlanguage in South America and the most-spokenlanguage in the Southern Hemisphere, it is also the second-most spokenlanguage, after Spanish...
Asian languages is the word bhāṣā, or spokenlanguage, which is used to refer to the names of many languages. To this day, Southeast Asian languages such...
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...
million as second language speakers as of 2024, Bengali is the fifth most spoken native language and the seventh most spokenlanguage by the total number...
Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan languagespoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani...
[ʕaraˈbij]) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The ISO assigns language codes to 32 varieties of...
Gallo-Romance languagespoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the Grisons (Graubünden). Romansh has been recognized as a national language of Switzerland...
Arabic. In addition, the 19th edition of Ethnologue lists 36 languages and dialects spoken through Israel. According to a 2011 Government Social Survey...
'Han language'), that are spoken by 92% of the population. The Chinese (or 'Sinitic') languages are typically divided into seven major language groups...
an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia. It is the native language of the Russians and belongs to the Indo-European language family. It is...
used alongside spokenlanguages. Simple gestures are not included, as they do not constitute language. Signed modes of spokenlanguages, also known as...
Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe...
and is the most widely understood language in the country. Pashto is also widely spoken in the region; but the language does not have a diverse multi-ethnic...
eighty languages are spoken. Of these, English, which was inherited from the colonial era, is the official language and lingua franca. Of the languages indigenous...
Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern...
Survey (ACS) of the U.S. Census Bureau; others include indigenous languages originally spoken by Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and native...