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Indo-Iranian Persian Hindi Urdu Bengali
I
N Celtic Welsh Irish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic Breton
D
French Italian Spanish Portuguese
O Romance
Rhaeto-Romanic Provencal Romanian
- German English Dutch Frisian Flemish
Germanic
E Norwegian Icelandic Danish Swedish
Slovene Croatian Serbian
U Slavonic
Polish Russian Slovak Czech Ukrainian
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O Greek Greek
P Albanian Albanian
E
A Armenian Armenian
N
Baltic Latvian Lithuanian
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standard language specialized language
world language everyday language
colloquial language official language
artificial language dialect
dead language
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Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing
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lan·guage [láng gwij ] (plural lan·guages) noun
1. speech of group: the speech of a country, region, or group of people,
including its diction, syntax, and grammar
2. communication with words: the human use of spoken or written words as a
communication system
3. system of communication: a system of communication with its own set of
conventions or special words
4. nonverbal communication between animals: a nonverbal form of
communication used by birds and animals
5. nonverbal communication between humans: the use of signs, gestures, or
inarticulate sounds to communicate something
6. specialist vocabulary: the characteristic forms of expression used by those
in a specified group or sphere of activity
7. style of verbal expression: the verbal style by which people express
themselves the language of diplomacy
8. COMPUTING See programming language
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