a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition

the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.

communication by voice in the distinctively human manner, using arbitrary sounds in conventional ways with conventional meanings; speech.

the system of linguistic signs or symbols considered in the abstract ( opposed to speech ).

any set or system of such symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people, who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with one another.

any system of formalized symbols, signs, sounds, gestures, or the like used or conceived as a means of communicating thought, emotion, etc.

the language of mathematics; sign language.

the means of communication used by animals

the language of birds.

communication of meaning in any way; medium that is expressive, significant, etc.

the language of flowers; the language of art.

linguistics; the study of language.

the speech or phraseology peculiar to a class, profession, etc.; lexis; jargon.

a particular manner of verbal expression

flowery language.

choice of words or style of writing; diction

the language of poetry.

Computers . a set of characters and symbols and syntactic rules for their combination and use, by means of which a computer can be given directions

The language of many commercial application programs is COBOL.

a nation or people considered in terms of their speech.

Archaic . faculty or power of speech.

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accent , argot , articulation , brogue , cant , communication , conversation , dialect , diction , dictionary , discourse , doublespeak , expression , gibberish , idiom , interchange , jargon , lexicon , lingua franca , palaver , parlance , patois , phraseology , prose , signal , slang , sound , speech , style , talk , terminology , tongue , utterance , verbalization , vernacular , vocabulary , vocalization , voice , word , wordingnotes:don\'t use \' language \' when you mean \' writing system \' - chinese is a spoken language with no characters; the chinese writing system uses thousands of characters , lingo , esperanto , flash , glottology , grammar , idiolect , koine , linguistics , oracy , pasilaly , philology , register , rhetoric , volapuk , vulgate