💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Living language"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| modern languagenoun | A human language which is living or recently extinct. |
| extinct languagenoun | A dead language. |
| ghost languagenoun | A language which has lost its speakers. |
| second languagenoun | A language that is spoken by someone but is not their mother tongue. |
| constructed languagenoun | (linguistics) A human language that has been consciously devised by an individual or a group, as opposed to having naturally evolved as part of a culture like a natural language. |
| world languagenoun | A language spoken internationally and which is learned by many people as a second language. |
| sleeping languagenoun | (in the context of language revival) Extinct |
| vernacularnoun | The language of a people or a national language. |
| killer languagenoun | (linguistics) A dominant and prestigious language which gradually causes extinction of other, especially minor languages. |
| community languagenoun | (sociology, linguistics) An unofficial language spoken as a local lingua franca among people of diverse ethno-linguistic backgrounds. |
| heritage languagenoun | (linguistics) A minority language that one acquires as a first language but uses and/or is exposed to less later in life in favor of a more dominant majority language. |
| tonguagenoun | (nonstandard, rare) Language; spoken language, as opposed to other forms of language (body language, written language, etc.). |
| flashnoun | A sudden, short, temporary burst of light. |
| contact languagenoun | (linguistics) A language that influences another, especially because it is understood by a relevant portion of the speech community. |
| liturgical armeniannoun | Old Armenian (language). The language is still used in some contexts by the Armenian Church, e.g. in some prayers and in monumental inscriptions. |
| language areanoun | A geographical area where some language is commonly spoken. |
| auxiliary languagenoun | Any language (whether constructed or natural), such as Volapük, Esperanto, Swahili, French, Russian or English, used or intended to be used (locally, regionally, nationally or internationally) for intercommunication by speakers of various other languages. |
| language deathnoun | The death of a language, when a language loses its last native speaker |
| worldlangnoun | (conlanging) A constructed international auxiliary language where the vocabulary is based on languages of different language families from different parts of the world, typically based on the most spoken languages. Examples include Lidepla, Pandunia and Globasa. |
| language familynoun | (linguistics) A set of languages which have evolved from a common ancestor. |
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