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

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

They took their hats off and made obeisance and many signs, which, however, I could not understand any more than I could their spoken language....

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker