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spoken language

language produced orally
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Summary

spoken language is a type of language[1]. It draws 1,763 Wikipedia views per month (type of language category, ranking #16 of 78).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: language[3]
  • Has use: oral communication[4]
  • Opposite of: written language[5], sign language[6]
  • Partially coincident with: unwritten language[7]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/spoken-language[8]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C51277[9]
  • Different from: colloquial language[10], vocal language[11], capacity for language[12]
  • Studied by: speech science[13]
  • Exact match: http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/SpokenLanguage[14]

Why It Matters

spoken language has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

speech

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). spoken language. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/spoken-language
MLA “spoken language.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 14 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/spoken-language.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_spoken-language_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{spoken language}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/spoken-language}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 4668, 3483
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'as', 'az', 'be', 'bn', 'ca', 'da', 'de', 'diq', 'en', 'eo', 'et', 'eu',
    Partially coincident with → unwritten language
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 3483, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7328717|SpokenLanguage (#7328717)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 9w ago · Infovarius · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → informal, vocal language, capacity for language
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: capacity for language"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003483-mluveny-projev
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003483-mluveny-projev, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C51277
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 1356, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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