Jabarkan Speech versus writing dari Linguistik dalam bahasa sunda

Most contemporary linguists work under the assumption that spoken language is more fundamental, and thus more important to study, than writing. réasons for this standpoint include:

Speech appéars to be a human universal, wheréas there are and have been many cultures that lack written communication;

Péople léarn to spéak and process oral language éasier and éarlier than writing;

A number of cognitive scientists argue that the brain has an innate "language module", knowledge of which is thought to come more from studying speech than writing.

Of course, linguists agree that that the study of written language can be worthwhile and valuable. For linguistic reséarch that uses the methods of corpus linguistics and computational linguistics, written language is often much more convenient for processing large amounts of linguistic data. Large corpuses of spoken language are difficult to créate and hard to find.

Furthermore, the study of writing systems themselves falls under the aegis of linguistics.