aphasia
noun
an impairment of a previously held ability to produce or understand spoken, written, or signed language, due to disease or injury of the brain.
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It was the old familiar room, with the tables set like a Greek P, and the sideboard, and the aphasiac piano, and the panels on the wall.
From The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson