LANGUAGES

A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

Example: "He taught foreign languages"

• linguistic communication

• communication  21

• usage  6
• dead language
• words  9
• source language
• • object language
  • target language
  • signing  9
  • artificial language
  • metalanguage  16
  • native language
  • indigenous language
  • superstrate
  • superstratum  16
  • natural language
  • tongue  7
  • interlanguage
  • koine  9
  • lingua franca
  • linguistic string
  • string of words
  • word string
  • barrage  10
  • bombardment  20
  • onslaught  13
  • outpouring  13
  • slanguage  11
  • ergative-absolutive language
  • ergative language
  • synthetic language
  • agglutinative language
  • rhetorical language
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(language) communication by word of mouth

Example: "His speech was garbled"

• oral communication
• speech  13
• speech communication
• spoken communication
• spoken language
• voice communication

• auditory communication

• words  9
• orthoepy  16
• pronunciation  17
• conversation  17
• • discussion  13
  • give-and-take
  • word  8
  • expression  19
  • locution  10
  • saying  10
  • non-standard speech
  • idiolect  11
  • monologue  12
  • charm  12
  • magic spell
  • magical spell
  • spell  7
  • dictation  12
  • monologue  12
  • soliloquy  21
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The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number

Example: "His compositions always started with the lyrics"

• lyric  10
• words  9

• text  11
• textual matter

• love lyric

The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication

Example: "He didn't have the language to express his feelings"

• linguistic process

• higher cognitive process

• reading  9

The mental faculty or power of vocal communication

Example: "Language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"

• speech  13

A system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

Example: "Legal terminology"

• nomenclature  16
• terminology  17

• word  8

• markup language
• toponomy
• toponymy  18