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lan·guage
 language
- pronunciation:
- laeng
gwihj
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer
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noun |
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the system of spoken or written words that people use to communicate thoughts, ideas, or feelings.
It surprises adults that children can learn language so quickly.- similar words:
- communication, vocabulary
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| definition 2: |
the words or signs that a particular group of people uses to communicate with each other.
He can speak two languages, English and Spanish.- similar words:
- speech
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Language comes from lingua, a Latin word that means "the tongue."
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broader category including language |
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communication, culture |
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expressed through language |
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emotion, feeling, idea, knowledge, thought |
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similar to language |
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speech, tongue |
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some actions involving language |
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babble, chatter, communicate, decipher, decode, gesture, gossip, interpret, mumble, mutter, program, sign, speak, swear, taunt, translate |
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some body parts that produce language |
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larynx, lips, lungs, mouth, nose, throat, tongue, vocal cords |
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some examples of language |
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American English, Apache, Arabic, BASIC, Cajun, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Middle English, Mongol, Norwegian, Old English, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa |
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some forms of language |
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formal, informal, spoken, written |
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some kinds of written language |
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alphabet, code, hieroglyphic, shorthand |
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some parts of language |
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accent, consonant, dialect, figure of speech, gesture, grammar, idiom, jargon, pronunciation, sign, slang, sound, vocabulary, vowel, word |
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some people associated with language |
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speaker, translator |
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