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

Results showed that infants hear more spoken language than music, with the gap widening as the babies get older.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2024

Talania is not fluent in English or Tagalog, but speaks Ilocano, the third-most spoken language in the Philipinnes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024

Wild Boy had so taken control that I was losing the ability to express myself with the conventions of spoken language.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith