language

Roget category 560

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#560. Language

noun

language — phraseology etc. 569 — speech etc. 582 — tongue, lingo, vernacular — mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue — household words — King's English, Queen's English — dialect etc. 563.
confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie^† — pantomime etc. (signs) 550 — onomatopoeia — betacism^†, mimmation, myatism^†, nunnation^† — pasigraphy^†.
lexicology, philology, glossology^†, glottology^† — linguistics, chrestomathy^† — paleology^†, paleography — comparative grammar.
literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres [Fr.], muses, humanities, literae humaniores [Lat.], republic of letters, dead languages, classics — genius of language — scholarship etc. (scholar) 492.

verb

express by words etc. 566.

adjective

lingual, linguistic — dialectic — vernacular, current — bilingual — diglot^†, hexaglot^†, polyglot — literary.

phrase

syllables govern the world" [Selden].

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