| language lesson | a period of instruction learning a language |
| language teaching | teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language |
language area
language zone | a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language |
language
speech | the mental faculty or power of vocal communication, language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals |
| language barrier | barrier to communication resulting from speaking different languages |
| language learning | learning to use a language |
linguistic process
language | the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication, he didn't have the language to express his feelings |
| language requirement | a requirement that a student know certain languages |
natural language processing
NLP
human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
language
linguistic communication | a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols, he taught foreign languages, the language introduced is standard throughout the text, the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written |
| dead language | a language that is no longer learned as a native language |
| source language | a language that is to be translated into another language |
| object language target language | the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated |
language unit
linguistic unit | one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
terminology
nomenclature
language | a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline, legal terminology, biological nomenclature, the language of sociology |
written communication
written language
black and white | communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten) |
machine code
machine language | a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation |
| authoring language | software that can be used to develop interactive computer programs without the technically demanding task of computer programming |
natural language processor
natural language processing application | an application program that deals with natural language text |
| markup language | a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document |
standard generalized markup language
SGML | (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents, a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted |
hypertext markup language
hypertext mark-up language
HTML | a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents |
sign language
signing | language expressed by visible hand gestures |
ASL
American sign language | the sign language used in the United States |
| body language | communication via the movements or attitudes of the body |
| artificial language | a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose |
programming language
programing language | (computer science) a language designed for programming computers |
| algebraic language | an algorithmic language having statements that resemble algebraic expressions |
| algorithmic language | an artificial language designed to express algorithms |
application-oriented language
problem-oriented language | a language whose statements resemble terminology of the user |
| assembly language | a low-level programing language, close approximation to machine language |
command language
query language
search language | a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed |
computer language
computer-oriented language
machine language machine-oriented language | a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers |
| high-level language | a problem-oriented language requiring little knowledge of the computer on which it will be run |
| jobontrol language | a problem-oriented language used to describe job requirements to an operating system |
| multidimensional language | a programming language whose expressions are assembled in more than one dimension |
| object language target language | a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated |
object-oriented programming language
object-oriented programing language | (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure, C is an object-oriented programming language that is an extension of C |
| one-dimensional language | a programming language whose expressions are represented by strings of characters |
| stratified language | a language that cannot be used as its own metalanguage |
| syntax language | a language used to describe the syntax of another language |
| unstratified language | a programming language that (like natural language) can be used as its own metalanguage |
LISP
list-processing language | a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists |
| native language | the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood |
| indigenous language | a language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere |
natural language
tongue | a human written or spoken language used by a community, opposed to e.g. a computer language |
mother tongue
maternal language
first language | one's native language, the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next |
tone language
tonal language | a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings |
| contour language | a tone language that uses pitch changes |
| register language | a tone language that uses different voice registers |