These colonies are now independent, but English still is one of the languages spoken.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

And we had 20 native languages spoken at our school in addition to English.

除了英语，我们还有其它20种语言的教学。

旧金山的公立教育 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It turns out that sign and--the developmental milestones of sign languages and the developmental milestones of spoken languages are precisely the same.

手语的发展阶段,和口语语言的发展阶段是完全相同的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

David Harrison and Gregory Anderson of Living Tongues say that many endangered languages are spoken by native cultures in close contact with the natural world.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

One of the real surprising findings in my field over the last ten/twenty years has been that the acquisition of sign languages has turned out to be almost exactly the same; in fact, as far as we know, exactly the same as the acquisition of spoken languages.

过去的十到二十年间,在我的研究领域里最令人吃惊的发现之一就是,各种手语的获得过程,被证明几乎是完全相同的,实际上据我所知,和口语语言的获得过程是完全相同的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The nation, a former Australian colony, has a rich culture, where more than 850 indigenous languages are spoken, more than 10 percent of the world's total languages.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14