💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Second language"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| world languagenoun | A language spoken internationally and which is learned by many people as a second language. |
| international auxiliary languagenoun | (linguistics) A language intended to be used by people who do not share a common language. |
| minority languagenoun | (sociolinguistics) A language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory. |
| target languagenoun | (applied linguistics) The language a learner is attempting to acquire. |
| daughter languagenoun | (linguistics) A language which genetically descends from an earlier parent language. |
| community languagenoun | (sociology, linguistics) An unofficial language spoken as a local lingua franca among people of diverse ethno-linguistic backgrounds. |
| mixed languagenoun | A language formed by combining two languages, keeping elements of the grammar of both. |
| link languagenoun | A common language linking various people groups or ethnicities, where the adopted language is not a native language of any of the speakers using it; a lingua franca. |
| mother tonguenoun | The language one first learned; the language one grew up with; one's native language. |
| living languagenoun | A language which is still spoken in the contemporary period. |
| language areanoun | A geographical area where some language is commonly spoken. |
| superstratumnoun | (linguistics) A language imposed upon a population that previously spoke another language |
| tonguagenoun | (nonstandard, rare) Language; spoken language, as opposed to other forms of language (body language, written language, etc.). |
| contact languagenoun | (linguistics) A language that influences another, especially because it is understood by a relevant portion of the speech community. |
| native languagenoun | One's first language, learned in early childhood. |
| semilingualismnoun | The phenomenon of people speaking several languages at a low level of development, with evident deficiencies in all languages. |
| daughternoun | One’s female offspring. |
| interlanguagenoun | A language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language. |
| satellectnoun | A creole that exists within a culture where one of the parent languages remains the dominant local language. |
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