natlang
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English
Etymology
Blend of natural + language, by analogy with conlang.
Noun
natlang (plural natlangs)
- (informal, conlanging, natural language processing) a natural language, one that arose without intentional design.
- Antonyms: conlang, constructed language
- Proto-Indo-European was a natlang that can only be reconstructed with the help of its attested daughter languages.
- 2012 June 19, Escape Landsome, “Are Natlang the best case for entropy in communication ?”, in [email protected] (Usenet):
- In the case of natlang some redundancy is set to avoid this, namely the "f-" or "few" opposes the "n-" of "none", but also "-ew" of "few" opposes "-one" of "none", so that, if ever one phonem is not well understood, the other ones are there to save the day.
- 2012 June 19, Jonathan Jones, “Are Natlang the best case for entropy in communication ?”, in [email protected] (Usenet):
- I don't think so, mainly because, being NATlangs, they weren't designed at all.
- 2003 December 11, Javier BF, “Poll on Natlangs”, in alt.lang.artificial (Usenet):
- Don't expect me to waste my time learning a con-auxlang full of irregularities which I can already more or less understand and which won't gain me any access to other areas outside my own Romance area. I'll much rather use that time in learning the irregularities of a real natlang like, say, Arabic or Hindi, which will gain me access to the Arab and Indian areas, something which Interlingua won't do.
- 1999 September 16, Alexander Gross, “Limitations of Computers as Translation Tools”, in comp.ai.nat-lang (Usenet):
- is it true or not true that anything that can be said in mathematical notation, however advanced it may be, must at some point or another ALSO be sayable in ordinary natlang words?
- 1997 March 31, Tiro Typeworks, “Conlang to Natlang”, in [email protected] (Usenet):
- Regionalism is not a characteristic feature of natlangs, at least not in modern societies. People move around so much nowadays, that the effort is to conserve the differences rather than to conserve the similarities between different people's speech.