Thesaurus:language

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English

Noun

Sense: a system of communication

Synonyms

language
leid (Scottish, chiefly poetic)
lingo (colloquial)
speech [⇒ thesaurus]
tongue (metonymically)

Hyponyms

Creole and pidgin

creole [⇒ thesaurus]
pidgin

Lingua franca

Dead vs. living

Natural vs. other

Source of acquisition

Language families and genetic groups

Sino-Tibetan language [⇒ thesaurus]
Indo-European language
Romance language [⇒ thesaurus]
Slavic language [⇒ thesaurus]
Germanic language [⇒ thesaurus]
Celtic language [⇒ thesaurus]

Language typology

isolating language [⇒ thesaurus]
analytic language [⇒ thesaurus]
synthetic language [⇒ thesaurus]
fusional language [⇒ thesaurus]
agglutinative language [⇒ thesaurus]
polysynthetic language [⇒ thesaurus]
inflected language

Hypernyms

medium

Meronyms

Larger parts of language

Elements of language

Holonyms

language family

Various

languoid

Instances

Category:en:Languages

Further reading

“560. language” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“language” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
language - Language typology, britannica.com
LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY, Encyclopedia.com

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