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Khoisan language

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khoisannounA member of the group of non-Bantu Southern African indigenous people: the Khoi or San people.
tone languagenouna language in which different tones distinguish different meanings
natural languagenoun(retronym, linguistics) Any human language that has evolved naturally in a community, usually in contrast to computer programming languages, to controlled natural languages, and to constructed languages such as Esperanto (although constructed languages are subject to change by natural forces among fluent speakers).
caucasian languagenouna number of languages spoken in the caucasus that have no known affiliations to languages spoken elsewhere
elamiticnounAn extinct language spoken by the ancient Elamites.
artificial languagenoun(linguistics) A constructed language.
landsmalnounone of two official languages of norway; based on rural dialects
languagenoun(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
intralinguisticWithin a single language; contrasted with crosslinguistic.
basic englishnounA simplified controlled language based on English and intended for international communication and TESL.
object languagenoun(lexicography) the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)
pasigraphynoun(linguistics) A writing system where concepts are written instead of words. The system is not phonetic and uses ideograms, such as mathematical symbols. It is intended to be universally understood.
transformational grammarnoun(linguistics) A generative grammar, especially of a natural language, developed in the Chomskyan tradition of phrase structure grammars (as opposed to dependency grammars), and involving the use of defined operations called transformations to produce new sentences from existing ones.
descriptive linguisticsnounan explanation of a person's mastery of their native language
metalinguisticsnounThe branch of linguistics that studies language and its relationship to culture and society.
semasiologynoun(linguistics) Semantics; a discipline within linguistics concerned with the meaning of a word independent of its phonetic expression.
hamitic languagenouna group of languages in northen africa related to semitic
historical linguisticsnoun(linguistics) The scientific study of language change.
idioglossianoun(linguistics) An invented form of dialect, language, or speech used by children, typically twins, and intelligible only to its speakers.
austronesian languagenounthe family of languages spoken in australia and formosa and malaysia and polynesia

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