Spoken language - Onseigengo (English)

Japanese: 音声言語 - おんせいげんご（英語表記）spoken language

A language in which speech sounds are spoken and understood by ear. It is also called "spoken language" and is the opposite of "written language". The two are related in that, although there are ethnic groups that do not have a written language as their mother tongue, there are no ethnic groups that do not have a spoken language. Gestures, facial expressions, and broadly defined intonation play important roles, and as a result, there are many omissions and irregular expressions, the end of sentences is unclear and it is not clear whether one sentence or two sentences are made, and there is a lot of use of interjections, interjections, and final particles, making it different from written languages. There are colloquial (everyday conversation, conversation, etc.) and literary (speeches, lectures, and oral literature such as Ainu "Yukar"), but in general, colloquial vocabulary and grammar are used for spoken languages. Because of this relationship, "colloquial language" is sometimes used to mean spoken language.

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Japanese:

口で言語音を話し，それを耳で聞いて了解する言語をいう。「話し言葉」ともいい，「文字言語」 (「書き言葉」) に対するもの。両者は，母語として文字言語をもたない民族はあっても，音声言語をもたない民族はないという関係にある。身ぶり，表情，広義のイントネーションが重要な働きをし，そのため，省略や不整表現が多く，文の切れ目が不分明で1文か2文かがはっきりしない，間投詞・間投助詞・終助詞が多く用いられるなど，文字言語とは異なる性質をもつ。音声言語にも口語的なもの (日常会話体，談話体など) と，文語的なもの (スピーチ，講演などや，アイヌの『ユーカラ』などの口承文芸など) があるが，一般的には，音声言語には口語的な語彙と文法が用いられる。その関係からも「口語」を音声言語の意味で使うこともある。

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