langue
[ lahng ]
/ lɑ̃g /
noun French.
the linguistic system shared by the members of a community (contrasted with parole).
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accent, argot, articulation, cant, communication, conversation, dialect, diction, dictionary, discourse, expression, gibberish, idiom, interchange, jargon, lexicon, palaver, parlance, patois, phraseology
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- language laboratory,
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- langue de chat,
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langue
/ (lɑːŋɡ) /
noun
linguistics language considered as an abstract system or a social institution, being the common possession of a speech communityCompare parole (def. 5)
Word Origin for langue
C19: from French: language
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