

In almost every language the writing was developed ventures or even millenia after spoken.
Writing is also more set, especially with the printing press it made changes very slow. So while spoken language keeps changing written lags further and further behind.



Yeah, English is the go-to example because the first people to run printing presses in English were Dutch and couldn’t really spell or speak English.
There was likely similar situations in Asia as well, I’m just not familiar with their history.
But go back far enough and even writing by hand is technology