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- pronunciation:
- laeng
gwihj
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer
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When we talk about language, we mean the words that people use and the ways that people put the words together. It is with language that we can talk to each other.
Even before babies can speak, they are learning language. They can understand many things that people around them say.- similar words:
- communication, vocabulary
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A language is a particular system of words used by a group of people in order to communicate with each other. In America, most people speak the language called English, but many Americans speak other languages too, especially Spanish.
My friend Hyun lived in Korea and Japan when he was little. He can speak three languages! He speaks English, Korean, and Japanese.- synonyms:
- tongue
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- speech
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A way of communicating without using words is sometimes called a language.
When people talk about body language, they are talking about ways that people use their bodies that tell other people something about the way they are feeling. Your body language might tell someone that you are tired or that you are happy or angry, for example.- synonyms:
- communication
- similar words:
- code, gesture, speech
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Language comes from lingua, a Latin word that means "the tongue."
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broader category including language |
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communication, culture |
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expressed through language |
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emotion, feeling, idea, knowledge, thought |
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similar to language |
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speech, tongue |
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some actions involving language |
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communicate, gesture, gossip, interpret, mutter, program, sign, speak, swear, translate |
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some body parts that produce language |
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lips, lungs, mouth, nose, throat, tongue, vocal cords |
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some examples of language |
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Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Welsh |
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some forms of language |
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formal, informal, slang, spoken, written |
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some kinds of written language |
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alphabet, code |
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some parts of language |
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accent, consonant, gesture, grammar, pronunciation, sign, slang, vocabulary, vowel, word |
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some people associated with language |
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listener, speaker, translator |
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