retain their original meanings in Classical Chinese, such as 天 (ten, “heaven”), 天下 (tenka, “the world”) or 菩薩 (bosatsu, “bodhisattva”)

Kyūjitai form of 国語 (“national language; Japanese”)

Icelandic, the Icelandic language

Spanish language

message

to send word; to give a message

Portuguese language

(linguistics) a "recent" loanword, a Japanese word that has been borrowed since the modernization of Japan during the Meiji era from a modern foreign language, especially a European one; compare 借用語 (shakuyōgo)

a first language, a mother tongue, a native tongue, a native language

(linguistics, uncommon) a proto-language, a mother language (from which later daughter languages evolve)