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Spoken language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (295 words) |
 | A spoken language is a human natural language in which the words are uttered through the mouth. |
 | Computer languages are distinguished by their artificial origin. |
 | Sign languages have the same natural origin as spoken languages, and the same grammatical complexities, but use the hands, arms, and face rather than parts of the mouth as their place of articulation. |
| Sign language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2301 words) |
 | A sign language (also signed language) is a language which uses manual communication instead of sound to convey meaning - simultaneously combining handshapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to express fluidly a speaker's thoughts. |
 | Sign languages commonly develop in deaf communities, which can include interpreters and friends and families of deaf people as well as people who are deaf or hard of hearing themselves. |
 | The phonemic systems of oral languages are primarily sequential: that is, the majority of phonemes are produced in a sequence one after another, although many languages also have non-sequential aspects such as tone. |