Writing and Speaking

Writing is the use of letters, symbols or signs in a specific system to represent the associated language that is spoken. Before the advent of writing, information was conveyed between people by way of memory in spoken stories. Writing was created as a way of changing from the method of relying on memory to information that was written.

It was an outgrowth due to the complex administration required to account for the increasing need for accounting the aspects of trade between individuals. The birth of writing occurred sometime around 4000 BC. Writing became a permanent way of describing the events rather than the less dependable process of memory.

Writing is the forming of words, known as text, by the inscription of recognized characters on a medium. Linuistics is the separation between a spoken language and a written language. A writer is a person that creates a message in the form of text. Writing is only performed by humans.

Speech, the process of speaking, is the creation of sounds used by humans in a spoken language. Linguistics is sometimes referred to as articulatory phonetics. In it's simplest form, speech is how the speech organs (tongue, lips, etc) make the sound that is heard and recognized by another person. The act of speech perception is the process humans use to interpret and understand the language sounds made by another human.