Pronunciation of the word language

язык, речь, брань, стиль, язык писателя, языковой

существительное

- язык

- речь

spoken language — а) разговорная речь; разговорный язык; б) устная речь
written language — письменность; письменный язык
articulate language — членораздельная речь
literary language — литературный язык
substandard language — язык, не соответствующий языковой норме
he has a great command of language — он прекрасно владеет языком, у него прекрасная речь

- характер языка; стиль, слог

- дип. формулировка
- вчт. язык программирования ЭВМ

not to speak the same language — совершенно не понимать друг друга
they don’t speak the same language — они говорят на разных языках

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Словосочетания

the phonetic units of a language — фонетические единицы языка  
the arcane language of the law — понятный не всякому язык закона  
sanitize the language in a book — избавить книгу от грубых выражений  
the language curtain — языковой барьер  
language acquisition — овладение языком  
figured language — образный язык  
to learn / master a language — учить язык  
to standardize a language — стандартизировать язык  
language maintenance — поддержание (знания) языка  
national language — национальный язык  
official language — официальный язык  
second language — второй язык  

Примеры с переводом

Don’t use bad language.

Не ругайтесь матом.

How many languages do you speak?

На скольких языках вы говорите?

Language is the mirror of society.

Язык является отражением общественной жизни.

Her language is very slangy.

В её речи очень много жаргона.

They abandoned their native language.

Они перестали говорить на своём родном языке.

His language was often crude.

Он часто не стеснялся в выражениях.

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Формы слова

noun
ед. ч.(singular): language
мн. ч.(plural): languages

noun

- a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

he taught foreign languages
the language introduced is standard throughout the text
the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written

- (language) communication by word of mouth (syn: speech)

he uttered harsh language
he recorded the spoken language of the streets

- the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number (syn: lyric, words)

the song uses colloquial language

- the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication

he didn’t have the language to express his feelings

- the mental faculty or power of vocal communication (syn: speech)

language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals

- a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline (syn: nomenclature, terminology)

the language of sociology

Extra examples

How many languages do you speak?

French is her first language.

The book has been translated into several languages.

He’s learning English as a second language.

A new word that has recently entered the language

The formal language of the report

The beauty of Shakespeare’s language

She expressed her ideas using simple and clear language.

He is always careful in his use of language.

His companion rounded on him with a torrent of abusive language.

It took him several years to master the language.

Andrea’s native language is German.

For the majority of Tanzanians, Swahili is their second language.

She had lived in Italy for years, and her command of the language was excellent.

I didn’t speak much Japanese, and I was worried that the language barrier might be a problem.

Word forms

noun
singular: language
plural: languages

language

American English:

[ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ]IPA

/lAnggwIj/phonetic spelling

Mike

Lela

Jeevin

Jeevin

British English:

[ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ]IPA

/lAnggwIj/phonetic spelling

Andrew

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English Pronunciation

lan–guage

IPA: /ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: lăngʹgwĭj, IPA(key): /ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/
    • (General American, Canada) IPA(key): (see /æ/ raising) [ˈleɪŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
  • Rhymes: -æŋɡwɪdʒ
  • Hyphenation: lan‧guage

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (tongue, speech, language), from Old Latin dingua (tongue), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (tongue, speech, language). Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.

Noun[edit]

language (countable and uncountable, plural languages)

Examples

The English Wiktionary uses the English language to define words from all of the world’s languages.


This person is saying «hello» in American sign language.

  1. (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.

    The English language and the German language are related.

    Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.

    • 1867, Report on the Systems of Deaf-Mute Instruction pursued in Europe, quoted in 1983 in History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 →ISBN, page 240:
      Hence the natural language of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a language, capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.
    • 2000, Geary Hobson, The Last of the Ofos, →ISBN, page 113:

      Mr. Darko, generally acknowledged to be the last surviving member of the Ofo Tribe, was also the last remaining speaker of the tribe’s language.

  2. (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.

    the gift of language

    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 15:

      Language is the articulation of the limited to express the unlimited; it is the ultimate mystery which is the image of God, for in breaking up infinity to create finite beings, God has found a way to let the limited being yet be a reflection of His unlimited Being.

  3. (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
    • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate [], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, [], →OCLC:

      Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

    • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 35:

      And ‘blubbing’… Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. Nineteen-twenties schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.

    legal language;   the language of chemistry

  4. (countable, uncountable, figurative) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.

    body language;   the language of the eyes

    • 2001, Eugene C. Kennedy; Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor, →ISBN:

      A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.

    • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 231:

      Birding had become like that for me. It is a language that, once learnt, I have been unable to unlearn.

  5. (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
    • 1983, The Listener, volume 110, page 14:
      A more likely hypothesis was that the attacked leaves were transmitting some airborne chemical signal to sound the alarm, rather like insects sending out warnings [] But this is the first time that a plant-to-plant language has been detected.
    • 2009, Animals in Translation, page 274:
      Prairie dogs use their language to refer to real dangers in the real world, so it definitely has meaning.
  6. (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
    • 2015, Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages, →ISBN, page 94:

      In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.

  7. (uncountable) Manner of expression.
    • 1782, William Cowper, Hope
      Their language simple, as their manners meek, []
  8. (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.

    The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.

    The language he used to talk to me was obscene.

  9. (uncountable) Profanity.
    • 1978, James Carroll, Mortal Friends, →ISBN, page 500:

      «Where the hell is Horace?» ¶ «There he is. He’s coming. You shouldn’t use language

Synonyms[edit]
  • (form of communication): see Thesaurus:language
  • (vocabulary of a particular field): see Thesaurus:jargon
  • (computer language): computer language, programming language, machine language
  • (particular words used): see Thesaurus:wording
Hypernyms[edit]
  • medium
Hyponyms[edit]
  • See Category:en:Languages
  • artificial language
  • auxiliary language
  • bad language
  • body language
  • common language
  • computer/computing language
  • constructed language
  • corpus language
  • dead language
  • endangered language
  • engineered language
  • everyday language
  • experimental language
  • extinct language
  • foreign language
  • formal language
  • foul language
  • global language
  • hardware description language
  • indigenous language
  • international language
  • link language
  • literary language
  • living language
  • logical language
  • machine language
  • main language
  • mathematical language
  • meta language
  • metaphorical language
  • minority language
  • modern language
  • multi-paradigm language
  • natural language
  • object language
  • pattern language
  • philosophical language
  • phonetic language
  • planned language
  • principal language
  • private language
  • programming language
  • scripting language
  • secular language
  • sign language
  • spoken language
  • standard language
  • subject-oriented language
  • target language
  • universal language
  • vehicular language
  • vernacular language
  • working language
  • world language
  • active-stative language
  • agglutinative language
  • analytic language
  • direct-inverse language
  • E-language
  • ergative-absolutive language
  • I-language
  • isolating language
  • nominative-accusative language
  • oligosynthetic language
  • OV language
  • polysynthetic language
  • synthetic language
  • tripartite language
  • VO language
Derived terms[edit]
  • A language
  • AB language
  • abstract language
  • aspect-oriented language
  • aspect-oriented programming language
  • assembly language
  • B language
  • C language
  • child language
  • class-based language
  • classical language
  • clean language
  • community language
  • Community language
  • conditional assembly language
  • contact language
  • context-free language
  • curly-brace language
  • curly-braces language
  • curly-bracket language
  • daughter language
  • delegation language
  • domain-specific language
  • dynamic language
  • e-language learning
  • English-language
  • esoteric programming language
  • expressive language
  • first language
  • German-language
  • ghost language
  • good language
  • heritage language
  • high-level language
  • home language
  • imperative language
  • indexing language
  • interlanguage
  • intermediate language
  • international auxiliary language
  • Iranian language
  • Iranic language
  • killer language
  • language area
  • language arts
  • language assimilation
  • language assistant
  • language barrier
  • language code
  • language contact
  • language continuum
  • language cop
  • language death
  • language ecology
  • language exchange
  • language extinction
  • language family
  • language game
  • language island
  • language isolate
  • language lab
  • language laboratory
  • language model
  • language nest
  • language of education
  • language of flowers
  • language planning
  • language police
  • language pollution
  • language processing
  • language replacement
  • language school
  • language shift
  • language swap
  • language technology
  • language transfer
  • language-agnostic
  • language-independent
  • languaging
  • large language model
  • link-language
  • lip language
  • liturgical language
  • loaded language
  • logical language
  • love language
  • low-level language
  • macro language
  • markup language
  • matrix language
  • mind one’s language
  • mini-language
  • mixed language
  • moon language
  • mother language
  • native language
  • natural language processing
  • natural language understanding
  • null-subject language
  • object-based language
  • object-oriented language
  • official language
  • Oïl language
  • pandanus language
  • parent language
  • people-first language
  • Polish-language
  • private language argument
  • private language problem
  • private language thesis
  • pro-drop language
  • proto-language
  • prototype-based language
  • query language
  • receptive language
  • reconstructed language
  • regular language
  • role-oriented language
  • Romance language
  • second language
  • sleeping language
  • source language
  • speak someone’s language
  • speak the same language
  • specific language impairment
  • static language
  • statically-typed language
  • strong language
  • style sheet language
  • Sydney language
  • symbolic language
  • systems language
  • Turkish-language
  • unparliamentary language
  • ur-language
  • village sign language
  • visual language
  • visual programming language
  • watch one’s language
  • Western Desert language
  • whole language
  • wooden language
[edit]
  • langue
  • lingua
  • lingua franca
  • linguine
  • linguistics
  • tonguage
Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

language (third-person singular simple present languages, present participle languaging, simple past and past participle languaged)

  1. (rare, now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, [], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: [] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, [], published 1837, →OCLC:

      Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.

Interjection[edit]

language

  1. An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.

    You’re a pile of shit!
    Hey! Language!

See also[edit]

  • bilingual
  • lexis
  • linguistics
  • multilingual
  • term
  • trilingual
  • word

Etymology 2[edit]

Alteration of languet.

Noun[edit]

language (plural languages)

  1. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
    • 1896, William Horatio Clarke, The Organist’s Retrospect, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 79:

      A flue-pipe is one in which the air passes through the throat, or flue, which is the narrow, longitudinal aperture between the lower lip and the tongue, or language. [] The language is adjusted by slightly elevating or depressing it, []

References[edit]

  • language at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • language in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • “language”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French[edit]

Noun[edit]

language m (plural languages)

  1. Archaic spelling of langage.

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

language (plural languages)

  1. Alternative form of langage

Middle French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • langage, langaige, languaige

Etymology[edit]

From Old French language.

Noun[edit]

language m (plural languages)

  1. language (style of communicating)

[edit]

  • langue

Descendants[edit]

  • French: langage (see there for further descendants)

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Classical Latin lingua (tongue, language).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (archaic) IPA(key): /lenˈɡwad͡ʒə/
  • (classical) IPA(key): /lanˈɡad͡ʒə/
  • (late) IPA(key): /lanˈɡaʒə/

Noun[edit]

language f (oblique plural languages, nominative singular language, nominative plural languages)

  1. language (style of communicating)

[edit]

  • langue, lingue

Descendants[edit]

  • Bourguignon: langaige
  • Middle French: language, langage, langaige, languaige
    • French: langage (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings: (some possibly from O.Occitan lenguatge instead)

  • Middle English: langage, language, langag, langwache
    • English: language
  • Friulian: lengaç
  • Ladin: lingaz
  • Romansch: linguatg, lungatg; lungaitg; linguach

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