n. 25B6; noun
the structure of language : SPEECH, writing, communication, conversation, speaking, talking, talk, discourse; words, vocabulary.
the English language : TONGUE, mother tongue, native tongue; informal lingo. See lists.
the booklet is written in simple, everyday language : WORDING, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, form/mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words; speech, dialect, patois, slang, idioms, jargon, argot, cant; informal lingo.
linguistic.
Language Groups and Families
Afro-Asiatic Micronesian
Algonquian Mongolic
Altaic Mon-Khmer
Anatolian Mosan
Araucanian Munda
Arawakan Muskogean
Athabaskan Na-Dene
Austro-Asiatic Nahuatlan
Austronesian Niger-Congo
Baltic Nilo-Saharan
Balto-Slavic Nilotic
Bantu Ob-Ugrian
Benue-Congo Otomanguean
Caddoan Pama-Nyungan
Cariban Papuan
Caucasian Penutian
Celtic Piman
Chadic Polynesian
Chari-Nile Rhaeto-Romance
Chibchan Romance
Cushitic Salish
Dagestanian Samoyedic
Dardic Sanskritic
Dravidian Scandinavian
Eskimo-Aleut Semitic
Ethiopic Shona
Finnic Sinitic
Finno-Ugric Sino-Tibetan
Germanic Sintu
Gur Siouan
Hellenic Slavic
Illyrian Sotho
Indic Sudanic
Indo-European Tagalic
Indo-Iranian Tai
Indonesian Tanoan
Iranian Tibeto-Burman
Iroquoian Tungusic
Italic Tupi-Guarani
Kanuri Turanian
Kartvelian Turkic
Keresan Ugric
Khoisan Ural-Altaic
Kwa Uralic
Lenapi Uto-Aztecan
Malayo-Polynesian Voltaic
Mande Wakashan
Mayan Yuman
Melanesian
Languages
Indo-European languages Lao/Laotian
Afrikaans Lepcha
Albanian Manipuri
Ancient Greek Mizo
Anglo-Saxon/Old English (extinct) Naga
Armenian Shan
Assamese Tamang
Avestan (extinct) Thai
Baluchi Tibetan
Belorussian Semitic languages
Bengali Akkadian (extinct)
Bhili Arabic
Bhojpuri Aramaic
Bihari Assyrian
Breton Babylonian (extinct)
Bulgarian Chaldean
Cape Dutch Hebrew
Catalan Maltese
Cornish Phoenician (extinct)
Croatian Syriac (extinct)
Czech Ugaritic (extinct)
Danish African languages
Dutch Bambara
English Bemba
Faeroese Berber
Flemish Bushman
French Congolese
Frisian Coptic
Friulian Ewe
Galician Fula
Gaulish (extinct) Fulani
German Fulfulde
Gothic (extinct) Ge'ez
Gujarati Hausa
Gurkhali Kirundi
Hindi Kongo/Kikongo
Hindustani Kru
Hittite (extinct) Kung
Icelandic Limba
Iranian/Persian/Farsi Lingala
Irish Lozi
Italian Luganda
Kashmiri Luo
Kashubian Malinke
Konkani/Goanese Mandinka
Kurdish Mende
Ladin More/Mooré
Ladino/Judezmo Nama
Lahnda Ndebele/Sindebele
Latin (extinct) Ngbandi
Latvian Nguni
Lithuanian Nubian
Low German Nuer
Luwian (extinct) Nupe
Lycian (extinct) Oromo
Lydian (extinct) Pedi/Sepedi
Macedonian Sango
Magahi Senufo
Maithili Sesotho
Maldivian Setswana
Manx Shangaan
Marathi/Mahratti Shona
Marwari Songhai
Modern Greek Soninke
Moldavian Susu
Nepali Swahili/Kiswahili
Norn (extinct) Swazi/Siswati
Norwegian Tamashek
Occitan Tigre
Old Church Slavonic (extinct) Tigrinya
Old Norse (extinct) Tonga
Old Prussian (extinct) Tswana/Setswana
Oriya Turkana
Ossetian Xhosa
Paharia Yao
Pahlavi (extinct) Yoruba
Pali (extinct) Zande
Pashto Zulu
Phrygian (extinct) Austro-Asiatic languages
Pictish (extinct) Khmer
Polish Mon
Portuguese Munda
Prakrit (extinct) Nicobarese
Provençal Palaung
Punjabi/Gurmukhi Santali
Romanian Vietnamese/Annamese
Romansh Wa
Romany Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) languages
Russian Achinese
Sanskrit (extinct) Bahasa Indonesia
Scottish Gaelic Bajau
Serbian Balinese
Shelta Batak
Sindhi Bikol
Sinhalese Bugis
Slovak Cham
Slovenian Chamorro
Sogdian (extinct) Dayak
Sorbian/Wendish Dusun
Spanish Fijian
Swedish Hawaiian
Swiss German Hiligaynon
Tajik Iban
Tocharian A and B (both extinct) Ibanag
Ukrainian Ilocano
Urdu Javanese
Welsh Kayan
Yiddish Kenyah
Finno-Ugric languages Madurese
Estonian Makasarese
Finnish Malagasy
Hungarian/Magyar Malay
Khanty/Ostyak Maori
Komi/Zyrian Marquesan
Lappish/Sami Melanesian
Mansi/Vogul Minangkabau
Mordvin Pampangan
Udmurt/Votyak Pangasinan
other Uralic languages Rarotongan
Mari/Cheremis Samoan
Nenets Sundanese
Samoyed Tagalog
Selkup Tahitian
Turkic (Altaic) languages Tongan
Azerbaijani North American Indian languages
Bashkir See North American Indian Peoples.
Chagatai (extinct) Eskimo-Aleut languages
Chuvash Aleut (virtually extinct)
Gagauz Inuktitut/Inupiaq
Karachay-Balka Yupik
Karakalpak Central and South American Indian languages
Kazakh Araucanian
Kyrgyz Aymara
Orkhon (extinct) Black Carib (extinct)
Tatar Carib/Galibi
Turkish Guarani
Turkmen Guaycuru
Uighu Island Carib (extinct)
Uzbek Jivaro
Yakut Quechua
other Altaic languages Quiché
Buryat Taino (extinct)
Even Ticuna
Evenki/Tungus Tupi
Kalmyk Wapishana
Khalkha Warao
Manchu Australian Aboriginal languages
Mongolian Adnyamathanha
languages of the Caucasus Aranda/Arunta
Abkhaz Nyungar
Adyghe Pintupi
Armenian Warlpiri
Avar Yindjibarndi
Azerbaijani Yuwaalaraay
Chechen pidgins and creoles
Circassian Chinook Jargon (extinct)
Georgian Bislama/Beach-la-Mar
Ingush Gullah
Kabardian Hiri Motu
Karachay-Balkar Krio
Mingrelian Neo-Melanesian/Tok Pisin
Ossetian Papiementu
Dravidian languages languages of no known affinity
Brahui Ainu (virtually extinct)
Gond Basque
Kannada Chukchi
Malayalam Dani
Tamil Etruscan (extinct)
Telugu Elamite (extinct)
Sino-Tibetan languages Hmong/Miao/Meo
Burmese Korean
Chin Japanese
Chinese Sumerian (extinct)
Dzongkha artificial languages
Garo Esperanto
Gurung Ido
Karen Volapük
Kuki