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Someone who does not speak is usually called mute. This means not speaking, or (temporarily) unable to speak.

The word dumb refers to people who are physically unable to speak, and used to be widely used but that came to refer to stupid and so fell out of favour.

Care should be taken when referring to someone as dumb.

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