lenguaje natural

Definitions of lenguaje natural
  1. noun
    a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
    synonyms: idioma, lengua
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    lenguaje artificial
    a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose
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    lengua materna
    one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
    criollo
    a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages
    llengua niger-kordofaniana
    the family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara; the majority of them are tonal languages but there are important exceptions (e.g., Swahili or Fula)
    lengua nilo-sahariana
    a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania
    esquimal
    the language spoken by the Eskimo
    type of:
    comunicación lingüística, lenguaje
    a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
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