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I learned in college (I'm a Social Science, not Arts, English graduate*) that basic form of language is speaking. Writing is just a tool for scripting and recording language and it is secondary to speaking. Communication, the main and first purpose of language and what it is originally existed for, all started with speaking. I was taught that sign language is not a full fledged real language.
This could be just a view we learned at college, tho. So I wouldn't take it as absolute. Nothing is really absolute except our own words and beliefs to ourselves, I always thought.
* English is taught where I live as part of Social Science not Arts as I believe it is in the West and other English as mother tongue speaking countries. That's why it covers almost everything English, including literature (I hated that), translation, phonology, psycho-linguistics, etc. I loved that last one as it had applied science in it. We used to call it just psycho
This could be just a view we learned at college, tho. So I wouldn't take it as absolute. Nothing is really absolute except our own words and beliefs to ourselves, I always thought.
* English is taught where I live as part of Social Science not Arts as I believe it is in the West and other English as mother tongue speaking countries. That's why it covers almost everything English, including literature (I hated that), translation, phonology, psycho-linguistics, etc. I loved that last one as it had applied science in it. We used to call it just psycho