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- pronunciation:
- laeng
gwihj
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- Word History, Word Explorer
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When we talk about language, we mean the words that people use and the ways that people put the words together. It is with language that we can talk to each other.
Even before babies can speak, they are learning language. They can understand many things that they can't say yet. |
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Groups of people who live in the same place often speak the same language. That means they all know and speak the same words and use the same rules to put them together. In America, most people speak the language called English, but many Americans speak other languages too, especially Spanish.
My friend Hyun lived in Korea and Japan when he was little. He can speak three languages! He speaks English, Korean, and Japanese.- similar words:
- speech
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Language comes from lingua, a Latin word that means "the tongue."
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broader category including language |
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culture |
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expressed through language |
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emotion, feeling, idea |
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some actions involving language |
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communicate, mutter, speak, translate |
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some body parts that produce language |
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lips, lungs, mouth, nose, throat, tongue |
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some examples of language |
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Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese |
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some kinds of written language |
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alphabet |
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some parts of language |
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consonant, grammar, sign, vowel, word |
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some people associated with language |
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speaker, translator |
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