When a spoken language is judged by the standard of the corresponding literary medium, in some of its aspects it proves to be conservative, in others progressive.
But a spoken language in its development is progressive as well as conservative.
All the devices of the ages in the way of dumb orspoken language fail to win across the void, and leave the two beings apart; but with a step the sympathetic spirit passes the gulf.
Notes: [A] Not a spoken language, but a system of writing.
For the idioms, particularly of a spoken language, probably reflect more accurately the historical experiences of a people than history itself.
The methodical signs did not profess to give him the ideas, except in a very limited degree, but only to show him how to express ideas according to the order and methods of spoken language.
But besides being cumbersome, gesture-language labours under the more serious defect of not being so precise, and the still more serious defect of not being so serviceable as spoken language in the development of abstraction.
Its syntax is simple and primitive, much like that of spoken language in its earliest or monosyllabic stage, as defined by Hovelacque.
Writing develops in the little child with facility and spontaneity, analogous to the development of spoken language--which is a motor translation of audible sounds.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spoken language" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
