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natural language

[ nach-er-uhl lang-gwigzh, nach-ruhl ]

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noun

a language used as a native tongue by a group of speakers, as Arabic, English, Mandarin, etc.:
Natural languages reflect cultural values like honesty or diplomacy in the manner and tone by which they communicate information.
a language that has developed and evolved naturally, through use by human beings, as opposed to an invented or constructed language, as a computer programming language (often used attributively): The search engine will return accurate results for keyword searches and natural language queries. Compare artificial language ( def ).
Natural language is characterized by ambiguity that artificial intelligence struggles to interpret.
The search engine will return accurate results for keyword searches and natural language queries.

natural language

a language that has evolved naturally as a means of communication among people Compare artificial language formal language
languages of this kind considered collectively

As to what degree the brain has a natural language, there are more questions and answers.

Now she was awake; her dream was over, and the natural language of the man was still ringing in her ears!

Her natural language, Masson tells us, was the Corsican patois.

Then they, hearing him speak in Greek, which was their natural language, became the more tender-hearted towards him.

The fundamental fact is that for him Scots was the natural language of the emotions, English of the intellect.

The pictorial illustrations show the location of each of the phrenological organs and their natural language.

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