The phrase "ancient spoken" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a language or dialect that was spoken in ancient times, but it lacks clarity and specificity.
Example: "The ancient spoken language of the Mayans has fascinated linguists for decades."
Alternatives: "ancient language" or "spoken in antiquity".
Older children, for example, might be interested in the trilingual storybooks inside the igloo, or in learning that these days, the igloos are used only for camping, and that the written Inuktitut language was created in the 20th century and is basically a shorthand transcription of an ancient, spoken tongue.
Their mission is to construct a written language from an ancient spoken tongue, teach the indigenous population to read, translate the entire New Testament (and portions of the Old) into the people's "mother tongue" and then give copies to one and all.
It is, perchance, that sweet scent of the earth of which the ancients speak.
"Vegetables connect us to the earth, to that Mother Earth of whom the ancients spoke".
Melvin Gibbs The myriad sounds on "Ancients Speak" (LiveWired Music), a boisterous new album by the bassist and programmer Melvin Gibbs, uniformly attest to an African continuum.
The past week, some 160 Christian families — mosly from Mosul — have fled to Alqosh, mayor Sabri Boutani told The Associated Press, consulting first on the number with his wife by speaking in Chaldean, the ancient language spoken by many residents.
"Get out from the TV, start to live," Mr. Sharett translated one scrawled Hebrew slogan at the start of class one recent evening, trailed by a dozen students thirsty to understand the life of the Tel Aviv street as much as the revived ancient language spoken on it.
Sometime between the 8th and 6th millennia bce, pastoralism and then agriculture developed in northern Africa and southwestern Asia, and, as the population grew, an ancient tongue spoken in this region fissured into the modern languages of the Afro-Asiatic (formerly Hamito-Semitic) family.
4. 80 Percent Rule: In Okinawa, they abide by hara hachi bu, an ancient rule spoken before meals.
The indigenous population of Egypt was gradually and largely Arabized and Islamicized over the following centuries, However, native Egyptian identity and language survived among the Copts, who spoke the Coptic language, a direct descendant of the Demotic Egyptian (which itself was an evolution of Ancient Egyptian) spoken in the Roman era.
Was the ancient Macedonian language (spoken by ancient Macedonians who had not been educated in Greek) a separate non-Greek language or an early form of Greek?
