He simplified the Russian script and the written language; he caused to be made innumerable translations of foreign works on history, geography, and jurisprudence.
Through Bulgaria, the Russians acquired a ready-made literature and a written language in a dialect which was partly Bulgarian and partly Macedonian, or rather Macedonian with Bulgarian modifications.
The possession of a written language acted as a lever as far as culture was concerned.
These three periods contain the entire method for the acquisition of written language.
We should lead the child more gradually to the conquest of written language, yet we should still have it come as a spontaneous fact, and his work should from the first be almost perfect.
Hence, real interjections are not a part of written language.
The elements of written language consist of letters or characters, which, by common consent and general usage, are combined into words, and thus made the ocular representatives of the articulate sounds uttered by the voice.
It appears that about the middle of the twelfth century this new dialect had risen to the dignity of being a written language; and it spread gradually through the country.
The naturalness of images (especially those resembling the physical universe of our existence) makes access to them sometimes easier than access to written language.
Nevertheless, events preceding written language give us the perspective of what made writing necessary, and why some cultures never developed a written language.
This is well illustrated by a remark of Birch, who, in dwelling upon the antiquity of the fictile art, says that "the existence of earthen vessels in Egypt was at least coeval with the formation of a written language.
But none of these requires the complexity of a written language.
Right there is your inducement to use a written language.
And remember that history is a very late development in our own culture, just as written language is.
Just as one acquires skill in the use of the piano by innumerable exercises and continual practice, so one attains to mastery in written language only by writing and writing and writing.
Let us say, then:-- Composition is the art by which ideas and mental impressions are conveyed in written language.
Written language, to repeat what everybody knows, consists of words arranged in sentences, which in turn are grouped into paragraphs, these again being placed together to form whole compositions.
It is certain that no permanent literary work can be accomplished without the mastery of a good English style; and it is equally certain that command of written language is of the highest value and use.
To what far, silent, undulating shore, where "a written language is the instrument only of the lofty expressions and aspirations of the soul" might he not bring us?
These dealers in tin and amber, these manufacturers of glass and purple, these developers of a written language, first gave the impetus to man's activity and courage and intelligence.
On passing from spoken to written language, we come upon several classes of facts, all having similar implications.
In Egypt, written language underwent a further differentiation: whence resulted the hieratic and the epistolographic or enchorial: both of which are derived from the original hieroglyphic.
Written language is connate with Painting and Sculpture; and at first all three are appendages of Architecture, and have a direct connection with the primary form of all Government--the theocratic.
The earliest literature of the ancient Greeks was first preserved in oral traditions, folk-lore, and legendary minstrelsy, and not in written language.
The natives had no idea of written language; and, believing that something of great importance was marked upon either the paper or copper, or both, they preserved it with the greatest care, and almost with superstitious reverence.
Those with whom we lived, and other settlements or tribes on the Asiatic coast with whom we have had any acquaintance, from East Cape to the north as far as our wreck, have no written language.
The manual alphabet and writing are the chief means used in the instruction of the pupils, and the principal objects aimed at are mental development and facility in the comprehension and use of written language.
Signs, the manual alphabet, and writing are the chief means used in the instruction of the pupils, and the principal objects aimed at are mental development and facility in the comprehension and use of written language.
Here a question occurs of importance in settling the orthography of any particular tongue: How near ought the written language to correspond to the spoken, and where may a disagreement between them be allowed with {25} propriety?
There is no doubt that the Gaelic has been for many ages a written language.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "written language" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
