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Language families

Alphabets and writing systems

Specific languages

The English language

Shortened form of a word or phrase

Abkhaz language

Northwest Caucasian language of Abkhazia

Accent (sociolinguistics)

Manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation

Acronym (organization)

Political action committee

Part of speech that describes a noun or pronoun

Class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations or mark various semantic roles

Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea

Affirmation and negation

Terms of opposite meaning which may be applied to statements, verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances

African-American Vernacular English

Variety of American English

West Germanic language spoken in South Africa

Afroasiatic languages

Large language family of Africa and West Asia

Language of Akan lands in Ghana

Akkadian language

Extinct Semitic language

Albanian language

Indo-European language

Algic languages

Language family indigenous to North America, including the Algonquian languages

Set of letters used to write a given language

Altaic languages

Hypothetical language family

Alternation (linguistics)

Alternate phonetic realization of a morpheme

American English

Variety of English language

American Sign Language

Sign language used predominately in the United States

Semitic language of Ethiopia

Forms of Greek used from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD

Anthropological linguistics

Study of language within historical and social contexts

Punctuation or diacritical mark (')

Applied linguistics

Study of language-related problems

Semitic language

Arabic alphabet

Writing system of the Arabic language

Writing system for Arabic and several other languages

Aragonese language

Romance language

Semitic language spread by the Neo-Assyrians

Armenian language

Indo-European language

Article (grammar)

Word used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun

Artificial language

Language which emerge either in computer simulations between artificial agents, robot interactions or controlled psychological experiments with humans

Computer art form using text characters

Assamese language

Indo-Aryan language spoken in India

Assimilation (phonology)

Phonological process in linguistics

Australian English

Set of varieties of the English language

Austroasiatic languages

Language family concentrated in Southeast Asia

Austronesian languages

Large language family mostly of Southeast Asia and the Pacific

Language belonging to the Avar–Andic group of the Northeast Caucasian language family

East Iranian language used in Zoroastrian scripture

Aymara language

Language spoken by the Aymara people

Azerbaijani language

Turkic language of the Oghuz sub-branch

Stage of language acquisition in infancy

Typographical mark (\)

Bambara language

Western African language

Bantu languages

Large language family spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bashkir language

Kipchak Turkic language

English-based controlled language

Basque language

Language of the Basque people

Belarusian language

East Slavic language

Bengali language

Indo-Aryan language mainly spoken in Bangladesh and India

Berber languages

Family of languages and dialects indigenous to North Africa

Bhojpuri language

Indo-Aryan language native to India and Nepal

Bihari languages

Group of Eastern Indo-Aryan languages

Bilingual education

Education conducted in two languages

Creole language used in Vanuatu

One of two official written standards for the Norwegian language

Bosnian language

Standard variety of Serbo-Croatian

Punctuation mark

Brahmic scripts

Family of abugida writing systems

Tactile writing system for blind and visually impaired people

Breton language

Celtic language spoken in France

British English

Variety of English language

Bulgarian language

South Slavic language

Burmese language

Language spoken in Myanmar

Business English

Part of English for specific purposes

Deliberate misspelling for comic effect

Canadian English

Set of varieties of the English language native to Canada

Variety of Yue Chinese

Catalan language

Romance language

Cebuano language

Austronesian language of the Philippines

Celtic languages

Language family

Chamorro language

Austronesian language spoken on the Mariana Islands

Spanish-based creole of the Philippines

Chechen language

Northeast Caucasian language spoken mostly in Chechnya and by Chechen people

Cherokee language

Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people

Language of the Bantu language family

Chinese characters

Logographic writing system used in the Sinosphere region

Chinese language

National language of China

Chuvash language

Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas

Classical Arabic

Form of the Arabic language used in Umayyad and Abbasid literary texts

Classical Chinese

Written form of Chinese until the early 20th century

Classical Latin

Standard form of the Latin language in the Roman Republic and Empire

Smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition

Speech and communication disorder

Action of changing between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation

Cognitive linguistics

Branch of linguistics

Colon (punctuation)

Punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line

Punctuation mark (,)

Comparative linguistics

Branch of linguistics

Computational linguistics

Interdisciplinary field

Conjunction (grammar)

Part of speech that connects two words, sentences, phrases, or clauses

Speech sound articulated by closing the vocal tract fully or partially

Constructed language

Consciously devised language

Contraction (grammar)

Shortening of words or phrases in speech and/or writing

Contrastive linguistics

Practice-oriented linguistic approach

Coptic language

Latest stage of the Egyptian language

Cornish language

Brythonic Celtic language spoken in Cornwall

Corsican language

Italo-Dalmatian language

Creole language

Stable natural languages that have developed from a pidgin

Pre-sleep monologue made by young children while in bed

Croatian language

South Slavic language

Cultural emphasis

Logosyllabic script used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East

Style of penmanship in which characters are written joined together in a flowing manner

Cyrillic alphabets

Related alphabets based on Cyrillic scripts

Cyrillic script

Writing system used for various Eurasian languages

Transliteration or transcription of languages using other writing systems into Cyrillic script

West Slavic language spoken in the Czech Republic

Danish language

North Germanic language

Punctuation mark ( — )

Inflection of nouns, pronouns, numerals, adjectives, and articles according to number, gender, and/or case

Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs

Syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison

Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs

Feature of grammar

Text for clarification; one of four rhetorical modes

Part of speech reflecting the reference of a noun

Script used to write Indian and Nepalese languages

Glyph added to a letter

Geographically- or socially-determined language variety

Situation in which two dialects or languages are used in fairly strict compartmentalization by a single language community

Linguistic phenomenon where sounds diverge

Dravidian languages

Language family mostly of southern India

West Germanic language

Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Bhutan

Early Modern English

Stage of development of English, starting late 15th century

Egyptian Arabic

Arabic variety spoken in Egypt

Egyptian hieroglyphs

Formal writing system used by ancient Egyptians

Egyptian language

Language spoken in ancient Egypt, branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages

Elamite language

Ancient language in Mesopotamia

Omission of sounds in words or phrases

Series of dots that indicates omission

Symbols used as emotional cues in text

Pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks, numbers and letters

Endangered language

Language that is at risk of falling out of use

English alphabet

Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters, each having an uppercase and a lowercase form

English Braille

Tactile writing system for English

English clause syntax

Clauses in English grammar

English grammar

Grammar of the English language

English language

West Germanic language

English orthography

Norms for writing the English language

English personal pronouns

Closed lexical category of the English language

English phonology

Phonology of the English language

English punctuation

Puctuation of writing as used in the English language

Verbs in the English language

Phonological process involving the addition of one or more sounds to a word

Writing on food

Eskaleut languages

Language family

International auxiliary language

Estonian language

Uralic language

Study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time

Innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive

Evolutionary linguistics

Sociobiological approaches to linguistics

Niger–Congo language spoken in southeastern Ghana and southern Togo, Benin, and South Western Nigeria

Exclamation mark

Punctuation mark (!) to show strong feelings

Extensive reading

Reading large amount of text in order to encounter and learn new vocabulary and language patern.

Faroese language

North Germanic language

Fijian language

Austronesian language of Fiji

Filipino language

National and official language of the Philippines

Finnish language

Finnic language mostly spoken in Finland

Language a person was raised speaking from birth

Property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise

Forensic linguistics

Application of linguistics to forensics

Structure of a formal language

Consonantal change

French language

Romance language

Frisian languages

Group of Germanic languages

Senegambian language of West and Central Africa

Topics referred to by the same term

Words supplying mainly grammatical information, rather than content information

Functional linguistics

Approach to linguistics

Eastern Min Chinese language

Galician language

Western Ibero-Romance language

Primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China

Generative grammar

Theory in linguistics

Georgian language

Official language of the country of Georgia

Georgian scripts

Three related alphabets used to write Georgian

German language

West Germanic language

Germanic languages

Subgroup of the Indo-European language family

Gilbertese language

Micronesian language

Gothic language

Extinct East Germanic language

Structural rules of a language

Grammatical aspect

Grammatical category denoted by a verb

Grammatical case

Categorization of nouns, pronouns and adjectives in linguistics

Grammatical category

Analytical class within the grammar of a language

Grammatical conjugation

Creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection

Grammatical mood

Grammatical feature of sentences

Grammatical number

Use of grammar in a language to express number

Grammatical tense

Category that locates a situation in time

Scientific study of graphemes and scripts (writing systems)

Study of written graphs independent of language

Great Vowel Shift

Pronunciation change in English between 1350 and 1700

Script used to write the Greek language

Indo-European language

Greenlandic language

Inuit language spoken in Greenland

Sound shift in the Germanic languages

Guarani language

Tupian language spoken in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia

Double chevrons used as quotation marks

Gujarati language

Indo-Aryan language

Hachijō language

Japonic dialects of disputed classification

Language spoken in Haiti

Primary branch of Chinese originating in Southern China

Native alphabet of the Korean language

Chadic language spoken by the Hausa people

Hawaiian language

Polynesian language

Symbol representing the heart

Hebrew alphabet

Alphabet of the Hebrew language

Hebrew language

Semitic language native to Israel

Herero language

Bantu language of Nambia and Botswana

High German languages

West Germanic language family

Standardised variety of Hindustani used in India

Hindustani language

Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and Pakistan

Japanese syllabary

Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea

Historical linguistics

Study of language change over time

History of English

Aspect of history

Hittite language

An extinct Bronze Age Indo-European language

West Hmongic dialect continuum

Huizhou Chinese

Sinitic language

Human skull symbolism

Attachment of symbolic meaning to the human skull

Hungarian language

Uralic language

Punctuation mark used to join words

Diminutive form of a name

Icelandic language

North Germanic language

Graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept

Combination of words that has a figurative meaning

Ido (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Niger–Congo language of the Igbo people, mainly spoken in Nigeria

Variety of English language

Indo-Aryan languages

Branch of the Indo-Iranian languages

Indo-European languages

Large language family originating in Eurasia

Indonesian language

Official language of Indonesia

Symbols of the Indus Valley Civilisation

Process of word formation

Input hypothesis

Hypotheses of second-language acquisition

Linguistic modifier which enhances the word it modifies

Word or expression used to express an emotion or sentiment

Idiolect used by a second language learner

International auxiliary language created by IALA

International auxiliary language created 1922

International English

English language as a global means of communication in numerous dialects

International Phonetic Alphabet

System of phonetic notation

Internet linguistics

Domain of linguistics

Interpretive discussion

Typographical symbol, variously used as word delimiter, currency decimal delimiter, etc.

Pan-Slavic language

Name of some Inuit languages spoken in Canada

Iñupiaq language

Group of dialects of the Inuit language, spoken in northern and northwestern Alaska

Iranian languages

Branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family

Celtic language native to Ireland

Italian language

Romance language

Jamaican Patois

English-based creole language spoken in Jamaica

Japanese language

Language spoken in Japan

Japanese writing system

Overview of how the Japanese language is written in contemporary times, and the writing system's evolution

Japonic languages

Language family of Japan

Specialist terminology

Javanese language

Austronesian language

Koreanic language

Adopted logographic Chinese characters used in the modern Japanese writing system

Dravidian language of South India

Kanuri language

Saharan language

Kartvelian languages

Language family

Kashmiri language

Indo-Aryan language spoken in Kashmir

Japanese syllabary

Kazakh language

Turkic language spoken in Central Asia

Austroasiatic language of Cambodia

Khoisan languages

African language family

Kikuyu language

Bantu language in Kenya

Bantu language official in Rwanda

Bantu language of Burundi and adjacent states

Klingon language

Language constructed for Star Trek

Uralic language that is spoken on the Republic of Komi, Russia

Bantu language spoken in Angola and Kongo

Korean language

East Asian language

Koreanic languages

Language family

Kra–Dai languages

Language family of Mainland Southeast Asia

Style of Arabic script

Kurdish language

Northwestern Iranian dialect continuum

Language of Angola and Namibia

Kyrgyz language

Kipchak Turkic language of Central Asia

Language (magazine)

Language acquisition

Process in which a first language is being acquired

Language change

Modification or development of a language

Language complexity

Concept in linguistics

Process in which a language eventually loses its last native speaker

Language development

Process starting early in human life

Language family

Group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor

Obfuscation of language for fun and secrecy

Language interpretation

Facilitating of oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages

Language isolate

Natural language with no demonstrable genealogical relationship with other languages

Language preservation

Efforts to save languages spoken by tiny minorities from extinction

Kra–Dai language of the Lao people

Cooperation scheme among 13 newspapers in Latin America

Alphabet used to write the Latin language

Grammar of the Latin language

Writing system used for most European languages

Latvian language

Baltic language, official in Latvia and the European Union

Internet slang/alphabet in which letters are replaced with visually similar characters

Consonant sound change

Letter (alphabet)

Grapheme in an alphabetic system of writing

Levantine Arabic

Arabic variety spoken in the Levant

Linguistic discipline studying words

Lexis (linguistics)

Technical term for all words in a language collectively

Tibeto-Burman language

Low Franconian language spoken in the provinces of Limburg

Writing system of the Minoans

Syllabic script used for writing Mycenaean Greek

Bantu language spoken in western central Africa

Language used to facilitate communication between groups without a common native language

Linguistic description

Work of objectively describing a particular language

Linguistic Typology

Academic journal

Study of human language

Ability to read and write

Literary language

Language register used in literary writing

Lithuanian language

Language spoken in Lithuania

Constructed human language based on predicate logic

West Germanic language

Luba-Katanga language

Bantu language of Uganda

Germanic language spoken in Luxembourg

Macedonian language

Language spoken in North Macedonia

Madurese language

Language spoken in Indonesia

Maghrebi Arabic

Family of Arabic dialects spoken in the Maghreb

Malagasy language

Language spoken in Madagascar

Austronesian language of Southeast Asia

Dravidian language

Maldivian language

Indo-Aryan national language of the Maldives

Maltese language

Semitic language spoken mostly in Malta

Mandarin Chinese

Major branch of Chinese languages

Goidelic (Gaelic) Celtic language of the Isle of Man

Māori language

Polynesian language spoken by New Zealand Māori

Marathi language

Indo-Aryan language

Marshallese language

Micronesian language

Writing system of the Maya civilization

Mayan languages

Language family spoken in Mesoamerica

Form of Latin used in the Middle Ages

Concept in functional linguistics

Metathesis (linguistics)

Switching the order of sounds, such as "nuclear" to "nucular" or "ask" to "aks"

English language from the 12th to 15th centuries

Historical variety of French used c. 1350–1600

Additional given name

Primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China and Taiwan

Stage of the English language from the contemporary period

Standard form of the Hebrew language spoken today

Modern Standard Arabic

Standardized and literary variety of Arabic used in writing and in most formal speech

Moldovan language

Outdated name for the Moldavian language in Moldova

Mon–Burmese script

South-East Asian writing system

Mongolian language

Language spoken in Mongolia

Mongolian script

Writing system used for the Mongolian language

Gur language spoken in Burkina Faso and neighbouring countries

Moroccan Arabic

Vernacular Arabic spoken in Morocco

Smallest unit of morphology, or grammar in a language

Morphology (linguistics)

The study of words, their formation, and their relationships in a word

Morphophonology

Study of the interaction between morphology and phonology

Transmission of language with brief pulses

Multilingualism

Use of multiple languages

Language of the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family

Word or term used for identification by an external observer

The predominant style in Persian calligraphy

Natural language

Language as naturally spoken by humans

Nauruan language

Austronesian language spoken in Nauru

Navajo language

Athabaskan language of Na-Dené stock spoken in the southwestern United States

Bantu language spoken in Namibia and parts of Angola

Nepali language

Official language of Nepal

Neurolinguistics

Neuroscience, and linguistics related studies

Informal name of a person, place, or thing

Niger–Congo languages

Large language family of Sub-Saharan Africa

Nilo-Saharan languages

Large proposed language family of Africa

Grammatical formation of nouns from non-noun lexemes

North Caucasian languages

Proposed language family

North Germanic languages

Branch of Germanic languages spoken predominantly in the Nordic countries

Northern Ndebele language

Language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, one of the official languages of Zimbabwe

Most widely spoken of all Sami languages

Norwegian language

North Germanic language spoken in Norway

The prestige language of the Yi people

One of two official written standards for the Norwegian language

Occitan language

Romance language

Oceanic languages

Subgroup of the Austronesian language family

Official script

Ojibwe language

Central Algonquian language

Old Church Slavonic

Medieval Slavic literary language

Earliest historical form of English

Gallo-Romance dialect continuum spoken from the 9th century to the middle of the 14th century

Word whose pronunciation imitates sound of its denotation

Origin of language

How, why, when, and where language might have emerged

Origin of speech

Why, how and when people might've started talking

Cushitic language native to the Horn of Africa

Set of conventions for written language

Ossetian language

Eastern Iranian language of Ossetia, in the Caucasus

Ovambo language

Indo-European language native to the Indian subcontinent

Category of words based on shared grammatical properties in a clause

Eastern Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Peninsular Arabic

Variety of the Arabic language spoken around the Arabian Peninsula

Pennsylvania Dutch language

Variety of West Central German

Persian alphabet

Alphabet that uses letters from the Arabic script

Persian language

Western Iranian language

Set of names by which an individual is known

Study of language in oral and written historical sources

Phoenician alphabet

Oldest verified alphabet

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Phonemic orthography

Orthography in which the graphemes correspond to the phonemes of the language

Study of how humans produce and perceive sounds

Phonological change

Phenomenon in phonology

Phonological development

Acquisition of language skills during childhood

Phonological history of English

Branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages

Group of (one or more) words

Ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object

Simplified language

Romanization scheme for Standard Mandarin

Polish language

West Slavic language

Polynesian languages

Language family

Portuguese language

Romance language

Word or grammatical construction used to indicate a relationship of possession in a broad sense

Branch of linguistics and semiotics relating context to meaning

Socially offensive form of language

Word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase

Way a word or a language is spoken

Grammatical concept

Prosody (linguistics)

Part of linguistics concerned with elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments, but properties of syllables and larger units of speech

Short traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth

Psycholinguistics

Study of relations between psychology and language

Marks to indicate pacing of written text

Punjabi language

Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and Pakistan

Quantitative linguistics

Subdiscipline of mathematical linguistics that investigates languages using statistical methods to formulate language laws

Dialect of French

Quechuan languages

Language family of the Andes in South America

Typographic character indicating a question

Punctuation mark (")

Taking in the meaning of letters or symbols

Received Pronunciation

Standard accent of Standard English in England

Linguistic phenomenon

Relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object

Regional Italian

Regional varieties of the Italian language, influenced by the languages of Italy

Register (sociolinguistics)

Form of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular communicative situation

Rhotic consonant

"R" consonants; a type of liquid consonant

Rhoticity in English

Pronunciation of 'r' across English dialects

Any system of slang in which a word is replaced with a phrase that rhymes with it.

Romance languages

Languages derived from Vulgar Latin

Romanian language

Eastern Romance language

Transcription of a text in a non-Latin writing system to Latin characters

Romanization of Arabic

Representation of the Arabic language with the Latin script

Romanization of Chinese

Writing Chinese in Latin-based scripts

Romanization of Japanese

Application of the Latin script to write the Japanese language

Romansh language

Romance language spoken predominantly in the southeastern Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubünden)

Undeciphered texts of Easter Island

Egyptian stele with three versions of a 196 BC decree

Ancient Germanic alphabet

Russian language

East Slavic language

Ryukyuan languages

Indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Samoan language

Language of the Samoan Islands

Type of sound changes at morpheme or syllable boundaries

Creole language spoken in the Central African Republic

Ancient Indo-Aryan language of South Asia

Sardinian language

Romance language indigenous to the island of Sardinia

West Germanic language

Scottish Gaelic

Goidelic Celtic language of Scotland

Ancient style of Chinese characters

Second language

Language spoken in addition to one's first language

Second-language acquisition

Process, in which a second or additional language after the first language has been acquired

Semantic change

Evolution of a word's meaning

Study of meaning in language

Punctuation mark

Study of signs and sign processes

Semitic languages

Branch of the Afroasiatic languages

Sentence (linguistics)

Textual unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked, expressing a complete thought in non-functional linguistics

Sequential bilingualism

Bilingualism by learning a second language after a first

Serbian language

South Slavic language

South Slavic language

Comma before the conjunction in a list

Variety of Wu Chinese spoken in Shanghai

Abbreviated symbolic writing method

Sign (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Language that uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning

1979 studio album by America

Simplified Chinese characters

Standardized set of Chinese characters

Sindhi language

Indo-Aryan language native to Sindh

Sinhala language

Indo-Aryan language native to Sri Lanka

Sino-Tibetan languages

Language family native to Asia

Vocabulary of an informal register

Slash (punctuation)

Oblique slanting line punctuation mark '/'

Slavic languages

Subfamily of Indo-European languages

Slovak language

West Slavic language

Slovene language

Slavic language, mainly spoken in Slovenia

Stylized image of a smiling face

Language variety or register peculiar to a specific social class

Sociolinguistics

Study on aspects of language and society

Somali language

Cushitic language of the Horn of Africa

Southern Bantu language

Process of language change that affects pronunciation or sound system structure

South African English

Set of English dialects native to South Africans

Branch of the Min Chinese languages

Southern Ndebele language

Language belonging to the Nguni group

Space (punctuation)

Blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables, or other written or printed glyphs; precise typographical rules differ according to language and context

Spanish language

Romance language

Human vocal communication using spoken language

Utterance that serves a performative function

Speech processing

Study of speech signals and the processing methods of these signals

Speech repetition

Repeating something someone else said

Set of conventions to represent words in writing

Spelling pronunciation

Pronunciation of a word influenced by its spelling

Spelling reform

Changing of the fundamental parts of orthography of a language

Spoken language

Language produced by articulate sounds

Standard French

Form of French used worldwide

Standard language

Language variety with substantially codified usage and often attributed to professional/public contexts

Sumerian language

Language of ancient Sumer and Babylon

Sundanese language

Language spoken in Indonesia

Hereditary portion of a personal name

Dialect of Wu Chinese

Swahili language

Bantu language spoken mainly in East Africa

Language of the Swazi people

Swedish language

North Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland

Dialect of German spoken in Switzerland

Set of written symbols that represent the syllables or moras which make up spoken words.

Unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds

Something that represents an idea, process, or physical entity

Syntactic change

Concept in linguistics

Compiler-generation system

Syriac language

Dialect of Middle Aramaic

Systemic functional linguistics

Tagalog language

Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines

Tahitian language

Language of French Polynesia

Taiwanese Hokkien

Variety of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan

Variety of Persian of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

Dravidian language

Turkic language spoken by Tatars

Telugu language

Dravidian language

Language spoken in Thailand

Theoretical linguistics

Branch of linguistics which inquires into the nature of language

In generative grammar, a formal device for representing syntactic argument structure—the number and type of noun phrases—required syntactically by a particular verb

Tibetan writing system

Tigrinya language

Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea

English creole spoken in Papua New Guinea

Minimalist language created by Sonja Lang

Spoken by the Tolai people of Papua New Guinea

Tongan language

Polynesian language

Transfer of the meaning of something in one language into another

Transliteration

Conversion of a text from one script to another

Trans–New Guinea languages

Southeast Papuan languages

Transphonologization

Tsonga language

Bantu language of the Tsonga people of southern Africa

Tswana language

Tungusic languages

Language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria

Tunisian Arabic

Maghrebi language spoken in Tunisia

Turkic languages

Language family

Turkish language

Turkic language of the Oghuz sub-branch

Turkmen language

Turkic language

Tuvaluan language

Polynesian language spoken in Tuvalu

Turkic language in Russia

Topics referred to by the same term

Typographical error

Mistake made in the typing process (such as a spelling mistake) of printed material

Ukrainian language

Language member of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages

Uralic languages

Language family prevalent in northern Eurasia

Indo-Aryan language

Uto-Aztecan languages

North American language family

Uyghur language

Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people

Turkic language of the Karluk sub-branch

South African Official Language

Vietnamese language

Official language of Vietnam

Visual language

System of communication using visual elements

Body of words used in a particular language

Vocabulary development

Process of learning words

Constructed international auxiliary language

Sound in spoken language, articulated with an open vocal tract

Non-standard Latin variety spoken by the people of Ancient Rome

Walloon language

Romance language common to an area of Belgium

Brittonic language spoken natively in Wales

West Frisian language

West Germanic language spoken in Friesland

Language of Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania

Smallest linguistic element that will be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content

Language that is spoken internationally and often learned as a second language

Persistent representation of language

Any conventional method of visually representing verbal communication

Written language

Representation of a language through writing

Chinese varieties spoken at and south of the Yangtze delta

Language of the Xhosa people

Primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China

High German-derived language used by Ashkenazi Jews

Yoruba language

Language spoken in West Africa

Primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China

Zhuang languages

Various Tai languages used by the Zhuang people of southern China

Language of the Zulu people