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...

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

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

human language. A writing system uses a set of symbols and rules to encode aspects of spoken language, such as its lexicon and syntax. However, written language...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

known written languages, first recorded in the hieroglyphic script in the late 4th millennium BC. It is also the longest-attested human language, with...

can be seen in the Hong Kong Language Maps, which shows oral languages from the 2011 Census, and oral and written languages from the 2016 Census. Statistics...

the native or primary language of 88% of its population. Its speakers today amount to approximately 3.8 million. Georgian is written with its own unique...

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...

written language is uniform and standardized. Swedish is the most widely spoken second language in Finland where its status is co-official language....

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

Koreanic. Many languages of Asia, such as Chinese, Persian, Sanskrit, Arabic, Tamil or Telugu, have a long history as a written language. The major families...

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...

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

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

official languages. There are regional dialects of the Māori language. Prior to contact with Europeans, Māori lacked a written language or script. Written Māori...

official written language of the Lao language of the left bank as well as the script used to transcribe minority languages. The Lao written language has unified...

the Turkish alphabet as the formal written language and by 2005 the community leaders decided that the Turkish language would replace traditional Turkmeni...

Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., using American English orthography (see Written language), has translated the Bible into Pennsylvania Dutch. The New Testament...

distinction in the English language between an elevated literary language (written) and a colloquial or vernacular language (spoken, but sometimes also...