n. 25B6; noun
he doesn't have the power of speech : SPEAKING, talking, verbal expression, verbal communication.
her speech was slurred : DICTION, elocution, articulation, enunciation, pronunciation; utterance, words.
an after-dinner speech : TALK, address, lecture, discourse, oration, disquisition, peroration, deliverance, presentation; sermon, homily; monologue, soliloquy; informal spiel.
Spanish popular speech : LANGUAGE, tongue, parlance, idiom, dialect, vernacular, patois; informal lingo, patter, -speak, -ese.
lingual, oral, phono-, -phone, -phasia.