A written language is the representation of a language by means of writing. This involves the use of visual symbols, known as graphemes, to represent linguistic...

even written) considerably earlier than the dates of the earliest extant samples provided here. A written record may encode a stage of a language corresponding...

Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout...

encode a particular spoken language. Every written language arises from a corresponding spoken language; while the use of language is universal across human...

self-designations for their language), and the second exonyms (names in foreign languages). Common endonyms: Ruska(ja) mova, written in various ways, as: ру́скаꙗ...

spoken language is a form of communication produced through articulate sounds or, in some cases, through manual gestures, as opposed to written language. Oral...

Groups of deaf people have used sign languages throughout history. One of the earliest written records of a sign language is from the fifth century BC, in...

Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly...

also the variety of spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard. MSA is the language used in literature, academia, print and mass media, law...

Turkic Living Northwest Caucasian languages are generally written using Cyrillic alphabets. Abaza is a Caucasian language, spoken by Abazins in the Karachay-Cherkessia...

century, when several regional written varieties began to develop. During the 19th century the area where the language was spoken declined due to the...

It Was Written is the second studio album by American rapper Nas, released on July 2, 1996, by Columbia Records. After the modest commercial success of...

the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Age. Today there are two official forms of written Norwegian, Bokmål...

spoken languages have not been written, all written languages have been predicated on an existing spoken language. When those with signed languages as their...

Written Language and Literacy is a peer-reviewed biannual academic journal of linguistics published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. The editor-in-chief...

classical language is any language with an independent literary tradition and a large body of ancient written literature. Classical languages are usually...

Germanic languages are now extinct, and Gothic is the only language in this branch which survives in written texts. The West Germanic languages, however...

the Kalahari Desert. [citation needed] Since the San people have no written language, [citation needed] these solar-powered devices—which are the size of...

in the 5th century, to Modern Georgian today. Its development as a written language began with the Christianization of Georgia in the 4th century. Georgian...

signing, or braille. In other words, human language is modality-independent, but written or signed language is the way to inscribe or encode the natural...

Bokmål (written) Nynorsk (written) Trønder dialects East Norwegian dialects West Norwegian dialects North Norwegian dialects Dalecarlian language Elfdalian...

Written Cantonese is the most complete written form of a Chinese language after that for Mandarin Chinese and Classical Chinese. Written Chinese was the...

only two Northwest Semitic languages, with the other being Aramaic, still spoken today. The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date back to the...

as dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or oral and written language learning disability (OWL LD) and this can impact the type of dysgraphia...

and Faroese are classified as "insular Scandinavian". Although the written languages are compatible, spoken Danish is distinctly different from Norwegian...

(Hanzi) and are mutually intelligible in written form. There are in addition approximately 300 minority languages spoken by the remaining 8% of the population...

it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years. Aramaic served as a language of public life and administration...

term Oirat or more precisely, Written Oirat is sometimes also used to refer to the language of historical documents written in the Clear script. In Mongolia...

works written in Hokkien are still commonly seen in literature, film, performing arts and music. Prior to the modern era, the main written language of China...

there are nine living Sami languages. Eight of the languages have independent literary languages; the other one has no written standard, and of it, there...