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Varieties of language.

The actual situation of the communication has evolved two varieties of language - the spoken and the written. Of the two varieties of language, diachronically the spoken is primary and the written is secondary. The spoken variety of /language is characterized by the presence of an interlocutor. The written variety, on the contrary, presupposes the absence of an interlocutor. The spoken language is maintained in the form of à dialogue, the written in the form of à monologue. The spoken language has à considerable advantage over the written, in that the human voice comes into play which in­volves intonation, gestures, etc. which give additional information. But it is the written variety, of language with its careful organization and deliberate choice of words and constructions that can have political, cultural and educational influence on à wide and scattered public.