Definition of "written language" []

• Communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten) (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Aside from giving no proof that he knows the spoken or written language of that market place, Geertz affixes twenty-eight pages of double-columned footnotes in extremely fine print as bibliographical and critical support for his description of a Moroccan souk."
• "Tarak paused, raised his wrist-lamp, and illuminated a wall etched and painted in colorful pictographs, the earliest written language of the Nasat."