language
797
1.0
- noun
- /ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
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idioma
- In which language should I tell you?
- English language
- a foreign language
- a second language
He seems to learn or know their language quite easily.
- He seems to learn or know their language quite easily.
- You're seeing Spanish language films, Indian films.
- Wanting to work in France without learning the language, I'd say bold.
- Can you say anything in any language I can say?
- How has your experience with Asia, Asian languages, philosophies influenced?
- You see the world through a lens, and your language forms that lens of belief.
- And So what does language have to do with that?
- See it's just language, language travel, my God.
- And so it's just our own little private language hookups.
- She was teaching her her third language with her second language.
Examples
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You have to teach me the language sometime.
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Can you say anything in any language I can say?
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I think that a common language helps in our house.
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For the language in which the people speak is the language in which they also write.
Academic text (2011) -
Do you speak other languages?
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Well, see that school has improved your language.
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Rhythm probably plays a central role in language acquisition and effective communication in general.
Academic text (2011) -
They need better funding for their language lab.
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We don't speak the same language.
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Many people around the world speak different languages to communicate with each other.
Synonyms
108
4.4
A spoken or written language used by a group of people
2
3.5
A system people use to speak and write to each other rather than computer code
1
8.2
A language people use to communicate across different groups
1
4.2
All the sounds, words, and rules used in a language
Idioms
Compounds
52
2.7
The way a person moves their face, hands, and body to show feelings without words
51
1.0
A language spoken in the UK, the US, and many countries and used worldwide for communication
32
2.8
A language using hand signs and face movements to communicate, often used by people who are deaf
- Specialized
15
3.9
A set of rules for writing instructions a computer can follow
3
3.9
A language of hand signs and body movements used by deaf people in the United States and parts of Canada
3
2.3
Learning to understand, speak, read, and write a language that is not your first
- Specialized
2
3.5
A system people use to speak and write to each other rather than computer code
- Specialized
1
4.6
A set of simple tags that tell a computer how to show or arrange text
- Specialized
1
5.5
A type of computer language that is easy for people to read and write
1
9.9
A language spoken by the Sámi people in northern Scandinavia and northwest Russia
1
3.4
English that people speak and write in the United States with different words and sounds
- Specialized
1
5.8
A programming language made of 0s and 1s that a computer runs directly
1
4.6
A language first used by ancient Jewish people, now the main language of Israel
- Specialized
1
5.3
The way computers understand and work with human language
- Specialized
1
4.9
A way to write small computer programs that run by themselves to do tasks
1
9.5
A language spoken in parts of Spain and France by the Basque people that is not related to other languages
- Offensive
1
8.1
A group of related languages spoken by native Arctic people like Inuit and Yupik
1
4.6
A language that people speak mainly in Albania and in nearby Balkan countries
- Specialized
1
7.2
A language made by people for a special use, like computers or international communication
- Specialized
1
8.1
A computer language that tells a computer's hardware what to do and works for one kind of computer
1
5.1
A language spoken by Kurdish people in parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria
1
2.7
The language spoken in North and South Korea and by people from Korea around the world
1
2.3
Work where people help others learn to speak and understand another language
- Literature
1
7.9
Words that make people feel strong emotions to change what they think
1
6.0
A language that comes from a large family that includes English, Spanish, Hindi, and Russian
1
9.8
A northern European language spoken by the Saami people in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia
1
2.7
A language spoken mainly in Portugal and Brazil and in some African and Asian countries
- Specialized
1
6.0
A computer language used to write small programs that do tasks for you
A group of related languages spoken mainly in Bihar, India, and in parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh
- Specialized
A Native American language once spoken by the Biloxi people in the southern United States
- Specialized
A group of related languages that people speak in Assam and nearby areas of northeastern India
A language spoken by the Blackfoot people of the northwest Great Plains in North America
A language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria, especially around Bokkos, Barakin-Ladi and Mangu
A language people speak in northern Nigeria like Hausa, with dialects Bara and Fika
A language spoken in northern Nigeria, closely related to Hausa, with dialects like Bara and Fika
How Widely Spoken
Surface Forms
Etymology
Language comes from the Latin word lingua, which means 'tongue'. Because 'tongue' also meant the way a group speaks, language came to mean the set of words and rules a community uses, like a 'mother tongue'.