Vulgar Latin, spoken form of non-Classical Latin from which originated the Romance group of languages.
Hong Kong residents overwhelmingly speak Cantonese, an ancient tongue as different in spoken form from Mandarin as Spanish is from French.
Chinese, especially Cantonese in the spoken form, is the common language, however, and is almost universally understood.
When information in spoken form is presented rapidly, older people don't understand it as easily as their children do.
Gaulish, however, gave way to the conquerors' speech, Vulgar Latin, which was the spoken form of Latin as used by the soldiers and settlers throughout the Roman Empire.
Because of this, the written language can be read without difficulty in many different dialect areas, although its spoken form varies greatly from one region to another.
As a result, the spoken form of modern Standard German has often been aptly described as "High German with Low German sounds".
Mandarin language, also called Northern Chinese, Chinese (Pinyin) Guanhua ("Officials' Language"), or (Wade-Giles romanization) Kuan-hua, the most widely spoken form of Chinese.
Spoken languages as the speech norms of communities of speakers must be distinguished from written languages, which are artificial and may not correspond to any spoken form.
Georgian language, Georgian Kartuli ena, official language of the republic of Georgia, whose spoken form has many dialects, usually divided into East Georgian and West Georgian groups.
