A Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and a large part of the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic.

(rare) Alternative spelling of bilingual

Alternative spelling of missionary-linguist

A missionary who seeks to study a people's language in order to facilitate religious conversion.

(philosophy) The shift which occurred in philosophical attention, during the 20th century and within a number of philosophical schools of thought, from traditional themes of metaphysics and epistemology to a focus on the structure and usage of language and the relation of language to human understanding of those traditional themes.

(linguistics) Synonym of historical linguistics

(linguistics) The scientific study of language change.

(linguistics) A branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness.

(linguistics, computer science) An interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective. This modeling is not limited to any particular field of linguistics.

plural of lingerer