Sentence examples for written languages from inspiring English sources

There are over 3000 written languages.

Yet he mastered them as written languages instead of conversationally.

Other written languages were used chiefly for religious purposes and by a limited number of people.

Another tendency, begun by Aruṇācala Kavirāyar in the 18th century, sought to bring the spoken and written languages together.

Most written languages were adopted far later than that, while universal literacy is hardly more than a century old.

Western written languages (and indeed most world ones) depend on words being spelt in letters from an alphabet.

The people of the cities developed new forms of urban speech, coloured by surrounding rural dialects, by foreign contacts, and by the written languages.

Both names have also been used for a variety of historical and contemporary spoken and written languages in China (Inner Mongolia) and Mongolia (Outer Mongolia).

The second type is represented by Tyvan (Tuvan; spoken in Tyva [Tuva] republic of Russia and in western Mongolia) and Tofa (northern Sayan region), both written languages.

Items on the questionnaires were read out by the researchers and discussed in both the written and non-written languages so that both literate and non-literate individuals could participate fully.

Still, of the 50-odd minority languages, only 20 had written forms before the coming of the communist regime in 1949; and only relatively few written languages e.g., Mongolian, Tibetan, Uighur, Kazakh (Hasake), Dai, and Korean (Chaoxian)—were in everyday use.