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.
First, the language developed on the basis of local spoken forms and evolved into the modern Romance languages and dialects.
When information in spoken form is presented rapidly, older people don't understand it as easily as their children do.
Within those programs, we must emphasize not just literature or schoolbook language, but the living, spoken forms as well.
"And English is a generator of local kinds of identity whether through spoken forms, film or literature as in India".
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".
