tongue 2
noundomain: communication
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
Hypernym
language 1
noun
a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
EnglishHyponym
mother tongue 1
noun
one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
tone language 1
noun
a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings
creole 3
noun
a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages
Amerind 1
noun
any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
Eskimo-Aleut 1
noun
the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut
