She sang only a note or two, just a word or two in some tongue never spoken by human beings, and I was upon her.

Besides this Common Speech there were, however, many other tongues still spoken in the West-lands.

In school the children had talked English, but among themselves they reverted to the tongue spoken at home.

The main tongue spoken there is Pashto language.

The official view here is that all of the tongues spoken by Han are variants of one language, Chinese.

I have not heard our tongue spoken like running water for so many years.

The language of pain, then, is the most exclusive of tongues, spoken and understood by an elite of one.

Could all these languages be echoes of the ancient tongue spoken by the first humans to arrive in Sahul?

Another academy decree strictly stipulated: "There shall be no native tongues spoken in the house."

Persian is the city's native tongue, spoken by roughly 98% of the population.