Thesaurus:language

THESAURUS

language

English

Synonyms

language

leid (Scottish, chiefly poetic)

lingo (colloquial)

speech [WS]

tongue (idiomatic)

Hyponyms

acrolect

argot

basilect

cant

chronolect

cryptolect [WS]

dialect

ecolect

ethnolect

idiolect

idiom

isolect

jargon [WS]

creole

lect

matrilect

mesilect

mesolect

mimolect

paralect

parlance

patois

patrilect

pidgin

similect

slang

sociolect

topolect

xenolect

—

lingua franca

vernacular

—

dead language

extinct language

living language

endangered language

—

natural language

constructed language

sign language

computer language [WS]

—

mother language

mother tongue

second language

Hypernyms

medium

Meronyms

expression

grammar

phrase [WS]

sign

statement [WS]

symbol

term [WS]

vocabulary

word [WS]

wording [WS]

Holonyms

language family

Instances

Category:en:Languages

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