natural language

1. is a type of: language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
   subtypes:

   • first language, maternal language, mother tongue - one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
   • tonal language, tone language - a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings
   • creole - a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages
   • american indian, american-indian language, amerind, amerindian language, indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
   • eskimo-aleut, eskimo-aleut language - the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut
   • chukchi, chukchi language - an indigenous and isolated language of unknown origin spoken by the Chukchi that is pronounced differently by men and women
   • sino-tibetan, sino-tibetan language - the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia
   • austro-asiatic, austro-asiatic language, munda-mon-khmer - a family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia
   • hmong, hmong language, miao - a language of uncertain affiliation spoken by the Hmong
   • austronesian, austronesian language - the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia
   • papuan, papuan language - any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages
   • khoisan, khoisan language - a family of languages spoken in southern Africa
   • indo-european, indo-european language, indo-hittite - the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
   • ural-altaic - a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)
   • basque - the language of the Basque people; of no known relation to any other language
   • elamite, elamitic, susian - an extinct ancient language of unknown affinities; spoken by the Elamites
   • cassite, kassite - an ancient language spoken by the Kassites
   • caucasian, caucasian language - a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere
   • dravidian, dravidian language, dravidic - a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka
   • afrasian, afrasian language, afro-asiatic, afroasiatic, afroasiatic language, hamito-semitic - a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
   • niger-kordofanian, niger-kordofanian language - the family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara; the majority of them are tonal languages but there are important exceptions (e.g., Swahili or Fula)
   • nilo-saharan, nilo-saharan language - a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania
   same as: tongue

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