Spoken Languages

Famous quotes containing the words spoken and/or languages:

“First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental content or concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.”
—William of Occam (c. 1285–1349)

“It is time for dead languages to be quiet.”
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)