Written language
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Written language is an invention, in the sense that it must be taught to children, whereas spoken language has evolved along with homo sapiens. Children will instinctively learn or create spoken (or gestural) languages.
Written language always appears as a complement to a specific natural language (English, French, American Sign Language, etc.) and no purely written languages (with the exception of computer languages, which are not natural languages) exist. Nevertheless many extinct languages are in effect purely written, since the written form is all that survives.
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