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    Speech has been used by humans for over a million years, while writing was invented around 3200 BC in Mesopotamia. While speech is universal among humans, writing requires formal education and there are still non-literate groups today. People acquire the ability to speak within the first two years of life, whereas learning to write requires years of formal instruction. Written language allows for larger bodies of preserved text, like literature, and is associated with power and prestige in literate societies, whereas oral traditions are used by non-literate societies to preserve songs, stories, and legends through memory alone. Spoken and written language have distinct structures and uses that influence one another through interdependence.

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    Speech has been used by humans for over a million years, while writing was invented around 3200 BC in Mesopotamia. While speech is universal among humans, writing requires formal education and there are still non-literate groups today. People acquire the ability to speak within the first two years of life, whereas learning to write requires years of formal instruction. Written language allows for larger bodies of preserved text, like literature, and is associated with power and prestige in literate societies, whereas oral traditions are used by non-literate societies to preserve songs, stories, and legends through memory alone. Spoken and written language have distinct structures and uses that influence one another through interdependence.

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    Speech has been used by humans for over a million years, while writing was invented around 3200 BC in Mesopotamia. While speech is universal among humans, writing requires formal education and there are still non-literate groups today. People acquire the ability to speak within the first two years of life, whereas learning to write requires years of formal instruction. Written language allows for larger bodies of preserved text, like literature, and is associated with power and prestige in literate societies, whereas oral traditions are used by non-literate societies to preserve songs, stories, and legends through memory alone. Spoken and written language have distinct structures and uses that influence one another through interdependence.

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    DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPEECH AND WRITING

     Age:
    Speech goes back to human beginnings,
    perhaps a million years ago. Writing is
    relatively recent, however; it was first  Retrieve ability:
    invented by the Sumerians, in Mesopotamia, Until the invention of magnetic recording,
    around 3200 B.C. Since then, the idea of speech could not be captured or preserved,
    writing has spread around the world and except by fallible memories and by writing.
    different writing systems have evolved in But writing can be preserved for millennia. Its
    different parts of the world. permanence has made possible such human
     Universality: institutions as libraries, histories, schedules,
    Humans everywhere can speak. But before dictionaries, menus, and what we generally
    the Sumerian invention, people were non- call 'civilization'.
    literate. Even now there are many non-  Literary Use:
    literate groups (e.g. in New Guinea). Non-literate societies have traditions - songs,
     Acquisition: rituals and legends, myths - composed orally
    People everywhere start speaking during the and preserved by memory. Such texts may be
    first two years of life; many of the abilities called oral literature. By contrast, writing
    involved are probably inborn rather than permits what is more often called 'literature',
    learned. i.e. bodies of text which are much larger and
     Levels of Structure: more codified than memory permits.
    Speech consists of two types of basic units:  Prestige:
    'Phonemes' or units of sound, which are Written language is associated with political
    themselves meaningless, are combined into and economic power, admired literature, and
    'morphemes', which are meaningful units; so educational institutions, all
    the phonemes /b/, /i/, /t/ form the word  Formality:
    'bit'. Alphabetic scripts work the same way. In Communication may be formal or casual. In
    a different type of script, the syllabary, the literate societies, writing may be associated
    basic unit, corresponds to a spoken syllable; with formal style and speech, with casual
    Japanese and Cherokee use this system. In style. In formal circumstances (oratory,
    logographic script, e.g. Chinese, each sermons), a person may 'talk like a book',
    character corresponds to an entire morpheme adapting written style for use in speech.
    (usually a word). Formal and informal styles may be very
     Interdependence: distinct, e.g. in Arabic, and can virtually be
    Most literate people can convey the same different languages.
    messages in either speech or writing, but  Change:
    speech typically conveys more explicit Spoken language, everywhere and always,
    information than writing. Hebrew and Arabic undergoes continual change of which
    scripts indicate consonants but often omit speakers may be relatively unaware. Written
    symbols for vowels. In Chinese, the symbols language, because of its permanence and
    that correspond to words may give no standardization, shows slower and less
    indication of pronunciation. Conversely, in sweeping changes; the spelling of English has
    spelling pronunciation, people may come to changed much less than its pronunciation
    pronounce the ‘t’ in 'often' even though since Chaucer's time.
    historically it had been lost.

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