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English

1. written language
2. written language (versus vernacular) ----unreviewed?
3. written Chineseunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 書面嘅語言記錄形式，運用文字傳意，而唔係口頭話語（口語）unreviewed?
2. 喺中國以至其他使用華文嘅地區嘅書面規範語。春秋時期至二十世紀初嘅書面規範係文言，以春秋時期嘅口語為基礎，秦始皇「書同文」更加鞏固咗共通語嘅地位；其後至今嘅書面共通語係基於官話語法嘅白話文。unreviewed?

Examples

• 口语比书面语更贴近生活。

  Spoken language is closer to life than written language.

  Tatoeba · GlossaMatik CC BY

• 其实，书面语我搞得相当好，但是口语中，我经常会记不起来某个字的音调。

  I'm actually relatively good at written language, but with spoken language I often can't remember the tone on some word.

  Tatoeba · fucongcong CC BY