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Definition of Spoken language
1. Noun. (language) communication by word of mouth. "He recorded the spoken language of the streets"
Category relationships: Language, Linguistic Communication
Generic synonyms: Auditory Communication
Specialized synonyms: Words, Orthoepy, Pronunciation, Conversation, Discussion, Give-and-take, Word, Expression, Locution, Saying, Non-standard Speech, Idiolect, Monologue, Charm, Magic Spell, Magical Spell, Spell, Dictation, Monologue, Soliloquy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spoken Language
Literary usage of Spoken language
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"... most representative form of the spoken language. The author, however, has not
in other respects slighted the South, as can be seen in the book itself. ..."
2. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"... CHAPTER VII BEGIN WITH THE spoken language THE second main axiom of living
philology is that all study of language, whether theoretical ox practical, ..."
3. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"... CHAPTER VII BEGIN WITH THE spoken language THE second main axiom of living
philology is that all study of language, whether theoretical or practical, ..."
4. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and by Marco Polo, Henry Yule, Henri Cordier (1903)
"Dr. Douglas's Dictionary of the spoken language of Amoy, and which throw a distinct
light on the subject of this note :— ‘ ‘ The vernacular or spoken ..."
5. The Psychology of the Common Branches by Frank Nugent Freeman (1916)
"CHAPTER IV READING: PERCEPTUAL LEARNING The relation of reading, writing, and
spoken language Reading and writing are very closely related to one another ..."
6. The Psychology of the Common Branches by Frank Nugent Freeman (1916)
"CHAPTER IV READING: PERCEPTUAL LEARNING The relation of reading, writing, and
spoken language Reading and writing are very closely related to one another ..."
7. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"IRISH AS A spoken language. From ' A Literary History of Ireland.' According to
the census of 1891, something over three- quarters of a million people in ..."
8. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"Literary languages are therefore to some extent anachronisms, being a mixture of
the contemporary spoken language with the spoken languages of earlier ..."
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