language
Betekenis
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- A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
- The ability to communicate using words.
- A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
- The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
- A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- A computer language; a machine language.
- Manner of expression.
- The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
- Profanity.
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lan‧guage
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/
Etymologie
From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.
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