spoken language

Example Sentences

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Democrats also want to bar DHS officers from detaining people based on their ethnicity, spoken language, accent, or place of work.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026

DLD is a diagnosis given to children who have significant, ongoing difficulties understanding or using spoken language.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

These results support the idea that humans and great apes share vocal processing abilities that existed before spoken language emerged.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

But his performance wasn’t wholly without spoken language.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024

And I'm good at the body vocabulary that tells a story without having to use any spoken language.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins