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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

communication go
something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups

language, linguistic communication go
a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

tongue, natural language
a human written or spoken language used by a community

noun.communication

22 Subcategories

mother tongue, maternal language, first language go
one's native language
tone language, tonal language go
a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings
creole go
a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages
Amerind, Amerindian language, American-Indian language, American Indian, Indian go
any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
Eskimo-Aleut, Eskimo-Aleut language go
the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut
Chukchi, Chukchi language go
an indigenous and isolated language of unknown origin spoken by the Chukchi that is pronounced differently by men and women
Sino-Tibetan, Sino-Tibetan language go
the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia
Austro-Asiatic, Austro-Asiatic language, Munda-Mon-Khmer go
a family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia
Hmong, Hmong language, Miao go
a language of uncertain affiliation spoken by the Hmong
Austronesian, Austronesian language go
the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia
Papuan, Papuan language go
any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages
Khoisan, Khoisan language go
a family of languages spoken in southern Africa
Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite go
the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
Ural-Altaic go
a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)
Basque go
the language of the Basque people
Elamitic, Elamite, Susian go
an extinct ancient language of unknown affinities
Kassite, Cassite go
an ancient language spoken by the Kassites
Caucasian, Caucasian language go
a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere
Dravidian, Dravidic, Dravidian language go
a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka
Afroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Afrasian, Afrasian language, Hamito-Semitic go
a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa
Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian language go
the family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara
Nilo-Saharan, Nilo-Saharan language go
a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania