gabbling vs speaking

gabbling

noun
  • Rapid, confused speech. 

speaking

noun
  • The act of communicating vocally. 

  • One's ability to communicate vocally in a given language. 

  • An oral recitation of e.g. a story. 

adj
  • Used in speaking. 

  • Having competence in a language. 

  • Having the ability of speech. 

  • Expressive; eloquent. 

  • Involving speaking. 

intj
  • Indication that the person requested is the same as the one who is currently speaking. 

How often have the words gabbling and speaking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )