Language

Noun

 * 1)  A form of communication using words either spoken or gestured with the hands and structured with grammar, often with a writing system.
 * the English language
 * sign language
 * 1)  The ability to communicate using words.
 * the gift of language
 * 1)  Nonverbal communication.
 * body language
 * 1)  A computer language.
 * 2)  The vocabulary and usage used in a particular specialist field.
 * legal language
 * 1)  The particular words used in speech or a passage of text.
 * The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
 * The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
 * 1)  Profanity.
 * 1)  Profanity.

Synonyms

 * lingo, tongue, speech, parlance
 * computer language, programming language
 * jargon, phraseology, terminology
 * lexis, phraseology, phrasing, terms, wording, words

Derived terms

 * artificial language
 * bad language
 * body language
 * computing language
 * foreign language
 * language barrier
 * language code
 * language cop
 * language death
 * language extinction
 * language family
 * language lab, language laboratory
 * language model
 * language of flowers


 * language planning
 * language police
 * language pollution
 * language processing
 * language school
 * language shift
 * language technology
 * language transfer
 * literary language
 * languaging
 * machine language
 * mind one's language
 * modern language
 * natural language
 * programming language
 * sign language

Related terms

 * langue
 * linguine
 * linguistics

Adjectives for Language
various (pi); symbolical; evasive; abusive; well-known; clear; understandable; simple; clarified; easy; peculiar; profane; psychoanalytic; lovely; figurative; neighboring luminous; ungracious; graceless; energetic ominous; satirical; adopted; subservient impassioned; rhythmical; strenuous; lucid emphatic; precise; noble; judicious; conversational; similar; amicable; forcible; vio¬lent; unseemly; flexible; musical; refined primitive; wide-spread; copious; metrical; native; expressive; unmistakable; worthy passionate; maternal; extinct; warming; dead; universal; reviling; elegant; opprobrious; inoffensive; biblical; scrupulous; classical; provincial; concise; sublime; appropriate; nervous; unintelligible; official; elaborate; stilted; bombastic; temperate; winning; cordial; sensible; semibarbarous mystic; glowing; tart; strong; persuasive inadequate; provocative; hearty; lustful animated; rude; decorous; uncensored; remarkable; felicitous; colloquial; declarative emotional; melodious; informal; striking; paradoxical; imaginative; contemptuous; coarse; embellished; pleasurable; impossible; vehement; rugged; vigorous; idiomatic; austere; traditional; high-flown; hidden; spiritual; characteristic; artificial; lifeless; sacred; colorless; symbolic; euphonious; literary; immoderate; festive; impious.

Verbs for Language
a; bolt—; broaden—; clothe in—; command—; corrupt—; decipher—; decode —; defile—; interpret—; manipulate—; master—; mold—; mutilate—; purify—; restrict—; revive—; strangle—; vitalize—; vulgarize—; —abounds in; —bears witness; —bristles with; —flows; —lilts; —survives.

Thesaurus
Abnaki, Afghan, Afghani, Afrikaans, Afro-Asiatic, Ainu, Akan, Akkadian, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquian, Algonquin, Amharic, Anatolian, Anatolic, Andaman, Annamese, Anzanite, Apache, Arabic, Aramaic, Araucanian, Arawak, Arawakan, Armenian, Arulo, Aryan, Assamese, Athapaskan, Austral, Austronesian, Avestan, Aymara, Aztec, Balinese, Baluchi, Bashkir, Basque, Batak, Bellacoola, Bengali, Berber, Bhili, Bihari, Bikol, Bini, Blackfoot, Blaia Zimondal, Brahui, Brythonic, Buginese, Burmese, Burushaski, Buryat, Bushman, Byelorussian, Cantonese, Carolinian, Caspian, Castilian, Catalan, Caucasian, Chad, Cham, Cheremis, Cherokee, Chibcha, Chibchan, Chin, Chinese, Chinookan, Chuvash, Coptic, Cornish, Cuman, Czech, Dafla, Dalmatian, Danish, Dinka, Dravidian, Dutch, Dyak, Edo, Efatese, Egyptian, Elamitic, English, Eskimo, Eskimo-Aleut, Esperantido, Esperanto, Estonian, Ethiopic, Europan, Euskarian, Ewe, Faeroese, Faliscan, Fijian, Finnic, Finnish, Flemish, Fox, French, Frisian, Fula, Fulani, Gadaba, Gaelic, Galcha, Galla, Garo, Gaulish, Geez, Georgian, German, Germanic, Gold, Goldi, Gondi, Gothic, Greek, Guanche, Guarani, Gur, Gypsy, Haida, Haitian Creole, Hamito-Semitic, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hellenic, Hindustani, Hittite, Ho, Hokaltecan, Hokan-Siouan, Hopi, Hottentot, Iban, Ibanag, Ibo, Icelandic, Idiom Neutral, Igorot, Illyrian, Indic, Indo-Aryan, Indo-Chinese, Indo-European, Indo-Hittite, Interlingua, Irish, Iroquoian, Italian, Italic, Ivatan, Kachin, Kafiri, Kalmuck, Kamasin, Kamchadal, Kanarese, Kara-Kalpak, Karamojong, Karankawa, Karelian, Kashmiri, Kashubian, Kechumaran, Keres, Ket, Khamti, Kharia, Khasi, Khmer, Khoisan, Khondi, Khosa, Khowar, Kickapoo, Kiowa Apache, Kirghiz, Kiriwina, Kitunahan, Kodagu, Kohistani, Koiari, Kolami, Koluschan, Komi, Konkani, Korean, Korwa, Koryak, Kui, Kuki, Kuki-Chin, Kumyk, Kunama, Kurdish, Kurukh, Kutchin, Kutenai, Kwa, Ladino, Lahnda, Lampong, Lamut, Lao, Lapp, Latin, Latinesce, Latvian, Lettish, Libyan, Ligurian, Limbu, Lingualumina, Lingvo Kosmopolita, Lithuanian, Livonian, Low German, Luorawetlan, Lusatian, Luwian, Lycian, Lydian, Macedonian, Madurese, Magyar, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Malayo-Polynesian, Maltese, Manchu, Mandarin, Mande, Mandingo, Mangarevan, Manobo, Manx, Maori, Marathi, Maya, Mayan, Meithei, Mende, Messapian, Micronesian, Middle English, Middle Greek, Middle High German, Middle Persian, Mishmi, Mishongnovi, Misima, Miskito, Mon, Monario, Mongolian, Mongolic, Mordvin, Mordvinian, Moro, Mru, Munda, Muong, Mura, Muran, Murmi, Muskogean, Muskogee, Na-dene, Naga, Nahuatlan, Nepali, Newari, Ngala, Ngbaka, Niasese, Nicobarese, Niuean, Nogai, Nootka, Norwegian, Nov-Esperanto, Nov-Latin, Novial, Occidental, Optez, Oraon, Oriya, Oscan, Osco-Umbrian, Osmanli, Ossetic, Ostyak, Otomanguean, Pahlavi, Palaic, Palau, Palaung, Paleo-Asiatic, Pali, Pampango, Pangasinan, Papuan, Pashto, Pasigraphy, Paya, Penutian, Permian, Persian, Phrygian, Piman, Plattdeutsch, Polabian, Polish, Polynesian, Portuguese, Prakrit, Punic, Punjabi, Quechua, Quechuan, Ritwan, Ro, Romaic, Romanal, Romance, Romanic, Romansh, Romany, Russian, Ruthenian, Sabellian, Saharan, Sakai, Salish, Samoan, Samoyed, Samoyedic, Sanskrit, Sardinian, Sasak, Scandinavian, Selung, Semitic, Serbo-Croatian, Shan, Shilha, Shluh, Shoshonean, Siamese, Sinhalese, Sino-Tibetan, Siouan, Skittagetan, Slavic, Slavonic, Slovak, Slovene, Slovenian, Sogdian, Sorbian, Soyot, Spanish, Sudanic, Sumerian, Susian, Swahili, Swedish, Syriac, Syryenian, Tagalog, Tagula, Tahitian, Takelma, Takilman, Tamashek, Tamaulipec, Tanoan, Taracahitian, Tarascan, Tavgi, Taw-Sug, Thraco-Phrygian, Tibeto-Burman, Tigre, Tipura, Tocharian, Toda, Tsimshian, Tuareg, Tulu, Tungus, Tungusic, Tupi-Guaranian, Turanian, Turkic, Turkish, Turko-Tartar, Turkoman, Ugric, Uighur, Umbrian, Ural-Altaic, Uralian, Urdu, Uto-Aztecan, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Visayan, Vote, Votyak, Wa, Welsh, White Russian, Xhosa, Yakut, Yeniseian, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yukaghir, Yukian, Yurak, Zenaga, Zulu, agglutinative, analytic, argot, cant, choice of words, communication, composition, dialect, diction, dictionary, expression, formulation, grammar, idiom, incorporative, inflectional, interaction, intercourse, isolating, jargon, language, lexicon, lingo, locution, monosyllabic, palaver, parlance, patois, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, polysynthetic, polytonic, rhetoric, slang, speech, style, synthetic, talk, terminology, tongue, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbiage, vernacular, vocabulary, wordage, wording, words

Etymology
language: from language: from  * linguaticum:, from  lingua: from  dingua: "tongue" from. Displaced native Middle English rearde, ȝerearde "language" (from Old English reord "language, speech"), Middle English londspreche, londspeche "language" (from Old English *undefined: "language, national tongue"), Old English þēod and þēodisc, "language".

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"l{NgwIdZ/}}

Translations

 * Abkhaz: абызшәа
 * Adyghe:
 * Afrikaans: taal
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, لسان
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܠܫܢܐ (lišānā’)
 * Hebrew: לשנא (lišānā’)
 * Archi:
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese:
 * Asturian: idioma, llingua
 * Avar: мацӀ
 * Azeri: dil
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: hizkuntza
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Budukh:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:, စကား, ဘာသာ
 * Buryat: хэлэн (xeleng)
 * Catalan: idioma, llengua, llenguatge
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ (gawonihisdi)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Min Nan: gí-giân
 * Chuvash:
 * Coptic:
 * Cornish: yeth
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dargwa:
 * Dhivehi: ބަސް
 * Dolgan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Erzya:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Fiji Hindi:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * Middle French:
 * Gagauz:
 * Galician: linguaxe
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Gilbertese: taetae
 * Gothic:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: (glỗssα),  (glỗttα)
 * Modern: γλώσσα (ghlóssa)
 * Gujarati: બાશા (bāshā)
 * Hawaiian: ‘ōlelo
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Ido: linguo
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingush:
 * Interlingua: lingua
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: basa
 * Kabardian:
 * Kalmyk: келн (keln)
 * Kannada:
 * Kanuri:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kashubian: jãzëk
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Koryak:
 * Krisa:
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: тил (til)
 * Kyrgyz: тил (til)


 * Lakota: iyapi
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: taol
 * Lingala: lokóta
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban: banru
 * Luxembourgish: Sprooch
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: ഭാഷ
 * Maltese: ,
 * Manx:
 * Maori: reo
 * Marathi: भाषा (bhāshā)
 * Maricopa: chuukwer
 * Mazanderani:
 * Mirandese: lhéngua
 * Moksha: кяль (kyal’)
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: tlahtōlli
 * Nauruan:
 * Navajo: saad
 * Nepali:
 * Nogai:
 * Northern Sami: giella
 * Norwegian: språk, talemål (oral only)
 * Novial: lingue
 * O'odham: ñiok
 * Occitan: lenga
 * Ojibwe: inwewin, inwewinan
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:
 * Old High German:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Oriya:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, mowa
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Pulaar: ɗemŋgal
 * Punjabi: ਬੋਲੀ (bōlī), ਜ਼ਬਾਨ (zabān), ਭਾਸ਼ਾ (bhāśā)
 * Quechua: rimay, simi
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: linguatg
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: gagana
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian: ,
 * Shor:
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese: භාෂාව
 * Skolt Sami: ǩiõll
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Southern Altai:
 * Southern Sami: giella
 * Spanish: ,
 * Svan:
 * Swahili: lugha sg/pl (noun 9/10), ki- (noun prefix 7)
 * Swedish:, tungomål
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tatar: ,
 * Telugu: (bhaasha)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: dil, lisan
 * Tuvan:
 * Uab Meto:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ,
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:, zabon
 * Vietnamese:, , tiếng nói
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: taal
 * Wolof: làkk
 * Xhosa: ulwimi
 * !Xóõ: ǂàã
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: ,
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: ,


 * Afrikaans: spraak
 * Archi:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: llenguatge
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: sprogbeherskelse
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Khmer: (pīăsā)
 * Latvian: valoda


 * Lithuanian: kalba
 * Macedonian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: taleevne
 * Novial: lingue
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: vorbire, limbaj, limbă
 * Russian: язык (jazýk), речь (reč)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: говор
 * Roman: govor
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: மொழி, பாசை
 * Telugu: మాట్లాడు
 * Turkish:
 * Yiddish:


 * Afrikaans: gebaretaal
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: llenguatge
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: linguaxe
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: לשון (lašón), שפה (safa)
 * Interlingua: linguage
 * Italian:


 * Khmer: (pīăsā)
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: kalba
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: lingue
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: limbaj
 * Russian: язык (jazýk), письменная речь (pís’mennaja reč)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Tamil: மொழி, பாசை
 * Telugu: సైగ చేయు
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish:




 * Afrikaans: rekenaartaal
 * Arabic: (lúğa)
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: llenguatge, codi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: jezik
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: linguaxe
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: שפה (safa)
 * Interlingua: linguage
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 言語 (げんご, gengo)


 * Khmer: (pīăsā)
 * Korean: 언어 (言語, eon-eo)
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:, програмски јазик
 * Malay:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Novial: lingue
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: linguagem (de programação)
 * Romanian: limbaj
 * Russian: язык (программирования) (jazýk)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: språk, datorspråk
 * Tamil: மொழி, பாசை
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ (máy tính)
 * Yiddish:


 * Arabic: (lúğa)
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: llenguatge
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 用語, 用语, 詞語, 词语
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: linguaxe
 * Georgian:, ენები
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew: לשון (lašón), שפה (safa)


 * Interlingua: linguage
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 用語 (ようご, yōgo)
 * Khmer: (pīăsā)
 * Korean: 용어 (用語, yong-eo)
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: språk, terminologi
 * Novial: lingue
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: limbaj, jargon
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: மொழி, பாசை
 * Telugu: పదజాలం (padajAlam), అక్షరమాల
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ, biệt ngữ, từ vựng, thuật ngữ
 * Yiddish:


 * Afrikaans: taalgebruik
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: llenguatge
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 用語, 用语, 詞語, 词语
 * Danish: sprog, ordvalg
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: linguaxe
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: לשון (lašón), שפה (safa)
 * Interlingua: linguage
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: lingue
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పదజాలం (padajAlam)
 * Yiddish:


 * : jñò ndá
 * : (bhāṣā)
 * : yezh, yezhoù
 * : yinaknan, pinulungan
 * : vosa
 * : ñe'ẽ
 * : alelo
 * : lingwaġġ
 * : lingwaġġ


 * : gisun
 * : reo
 * : sprāche
 * : limba
 * : reč
 * : wika, salita, pagbigkas, pagbasa
 * : nhe'enga
 * : ulimi, isintu

Noun

 * 1) language (style of communicating)

Noun

 * 1) language (style of communicating)

Descendants

 * English: language
 * French: langage
 * Middle English:
 * Middle French:

Etymology
*undefined:, from Classical lingua:.