Thesaurus:language
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: a system of communication edit
Synonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
Creole and pidgin
Lingua franca
Dead vs. living
Natural vs. other
Source of acquisition
- birthtongue
- first language
- L1
- mother language
- mother tongue
- native language
- native tongue
- vernacular
- vulgate
- father tongue
- L2
- second language
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 edit
Meronyms edit
Larger parts of language
- acrolect
- argot
- basilect
- cant
- chronolect
- cryptolect [⇒ thesaurus]
- dialect
- ecolect
- ethnolect
- idiolect
- idiom
- isolect
- jargon [⇒ thesaurus]
- lect
- matrilect
- mesilect
- mesolect
- mimolect
- paralect
- parlance
- patois
- patrilect
- similect
- slang
- sociolect
- topolect
- xenolect
Elements of language
Holonyms edit
Instances edit
Further reading edit
- “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