A sign stands there saying, this is the village you are entering.
The sign names the place, speaks it as it were (an electronic voice could, these days, simulacrally speak it, as our 209 bus from Hammersmith to Barnes speaks its stops; but the orthographic sign 'speaks', I guess, in a voice that's in my head, thanks to my grasp of written language even in a language I do not know [this wouldn't work for me in Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic or Cyrillic]
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