(literature) A register of a language that is used in literary writing.

Profane or socially unacceptable words.

A language which is still spoken in the contemporary period, as opposed to a dead language.

A language which no longer has any native speakers, particularly (archaic) Latin and Ancient Greek.

(education) A method of teaching literacy that emphasises the recognition of words in an everyday context; often contrasted with phonics.

(linguistics) A natural language with no proven genetic relationship to another language.

A method of language learning based on mutual practice by learning partners who speak different languages.

(philosophy) A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.

One's first language, learned in early childhood. / The language of a Native or Aboriginal people.

plural of language code