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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language

Language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so, and a language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics. Questions concerning the philosophy of language, such as whether words can represent experience, have been debated since Gorgias and Plato in Ancient Greece. Thinkers such as Rousseau have argued that language originated from emotions while others like Kant have held that it originated from rational and logical thought. 20th-century philosophers such as Wittgenstein argued that philosophy is really the study of language. Major figures in linguistics include Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Languages

http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/

http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Education/Language_Arts/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Language

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Natural Languages  

Dance Languages

Modelling Languages

MetaLanguages

Language Definition

Constructed Languages

` ► Languages (39 C, 45 P)

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` ► Language acquisition (5 C, 113 P)

► Language-related awards (4 P)

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` ► Language competitions (4 C, 8 P)

► Natural language and computing (14 C, 24 P)

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• Language Development

` ► Documentary films about words and language (23 P)

`F

` ► Language and translation in fiction (1 C, 12 P)

`G

` ► Language games (32 P)

► Gender in language (2 C, 9 P)

`I

` ► Language interpretation (5 C, 21 P)

`L

` ► Linguistics (58 C, 176 P)

`M

• Language Mechanics

► Language and mysticism (3 C, 39 P)

`O

` ► Oral communication (13 C, 57 P)

`P

` ► Philology (11 C, 25 P)

► Philosophy of language (21 C, 121 P)

► Language policy (20 C, 88 P)

`S

` ► Self-reference (3 C, 19 P)

► Sociology of language (3 P)

► Language software (9 C, 8 P)

► Speech and language pathology (6 C, 51 P)

► Statements (15 C, 44 P)

`T

` ► Terminology (73 C, 44 P)

`V

• Vocabulary

`W

` ► Writing (36 C, 148 P)

`Β

` ► Wikipedia books on language (1 C, 14 P)

`Σ

` ► Language stubs (21 C, 261 P)

► Languages by word order (7 C)

► Lists by language (9 C)

► Lists of languages (6 C, 50 P)

► Categories by language (46 C)

► Languages by continent (8 C)

► Languages by country (215 C)

► Language families (131 C, 53 P)

► Languages by geographical region (4 C)

► Languages by time (4 C)

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` ► Ancient languages (22 C, 84 P)

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` ► Diaspora languages (5 C, 14 P)

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` ► Endangered languages (24 C, 86 P)

► Extinct languages (6 C, 44 P)

`G

` ► Glottonyms (3 P)

I

` ► International language observances (1 C, 7 P)

► ISO 639 (2 C, 38 P)

`J

` ► Jewish languages (9 C, 21 P)

`L

` ► Language orthographies (11 C, 67 P)

► Language phonologies (6 C, 97 P)

► Language comparison (9 C, 92 P)

► Language flags (3 P)

► Language isolates (9 C, 5 P)

► Language versus dialect (2 C, 39 P)

► Linguistic maps (1 C, 3 P)

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` ► Medieval languages (17 C, 87 P)

► Metalanguages (4 P)

► Musical languages (1 C, 6 P)

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` ► Non-tonal languages in tonal families (5 C, 4 P)

 Constructed

Natural

Education

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` ► Proto-languages (3 C, 63 P)

`R

` ► Ritual languages (3 C, 17 P)

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` ► Sign languages (15 C, 39 P)

• Language Software

► Sprachbund (1 C, 11 P)

► Spurious languages (1 C, 17 P)

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` ► Tonal languages (32 C, 50 P)

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` ► Unclassified languages (11 C, 4 P)

`V

` ► Language varieties and styles (14 C, 60 P)

► Vowel-harmony languages (8 C, 34 P)

`Σ

` ► Language stubs (20 C, 225 P)

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` Language

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` Ambiguities in Chinese character simplification

Angelic tongues

Articulatory approach for teaching pronunciation

Artificial language

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` Closed-ended question

Common English usage misconceptions

Constructed language

Counterword

Cultural emphasis

`D

` DeafVideo.tv

Dialect

`E

` Ergative–absolutive language

Escagraph

Evolutionary psychology of language

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` Feminist language reform

First language

First Language (journal)

Flitto

Fluency

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` Jean Gagnepain

`I

` Imprecise language

Information and media literacy

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` Khandbahale.com

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` Langmaker

Languaculture

Portal:Language

Language as violence

Language complexity

Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew

Language Generation Center

Language of mathematics

Language preservation

Lexical

Linear Unit Grammar

Linguistic Imperialism

Linguistics

List of languages in the Eurovision Song Contest

Logos

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` Metafunction

Multiethnolect

Musivisual language

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` Natural language

Nonsense word

`O

` Open-ended question

Origin of speech

Orthology (language)

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` Passive fluency

Linguistic performance

Philologos

Pivot language

Polyglossia

Pre-Samnite language

Problem of religious language

`R

` Reply

Rhema

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` Second language

Shabda

Sign language

Speech

Speech production

Speech repetition

Spoken language

Standard language

Studia Linguarum

Sublanguage

`T

` Terministic screen

User:The Philosopher John Locke/sandbox

Transitional bilingualism

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` Uncertain plural

`V

` Verbal language in dreams

Vernacular orientation

Visual language

Vocabulary

`W

` Word family

Writing

Language

`A

` Ancient language

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

`B

` Bernolák language

`C

` Context-free language

Cross-border language

`D

` Dutch Sign Language

`E

` Economics of language

English in Bangladesh

Experimental language

`F

` First language

`G

` Genderless language

Global language system

Glossophilia

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` Historical language

Heritage language

`I

` IETF language tag

Indigenous language

International Year of Languages

ISO 639 macrolanguage

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` Language code

Portal:Language

Languages in censuses

Lingua franca

Linguistic boundary of Brittany

Linguistic boundary of Moselle

List of languages in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

List of languages in the Türkvizyon Song Contest

Loanword

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` Medium of instruction

Metaphorical language

Minority language

Modern language

Multialphabetism

Mutual intelligibility

`N

` Nomen à clef

`P

` Polyglotism

`R

` Romance-speaking world

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` Sprachraum

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` Tripartite language

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` UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences

Universal language

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` World language

Written language

Pages in Other Languages

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• Cognition
• Conceptual Systems  

Semiotics

Symbols

• Human Communication  

Linguistics

• Culture

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