langue

[lahng]

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noun French.

the linguistic system shared by the members of a community (contrasted with parole).

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Related Words for langue

accent, argot, articulation, cant, communication, conversation, dialect, diction, dictionary, discourse, expression, gibberish, idiom, interchange, jargon, lexicon, palaver, parlance, patois, phraseology

Examples from the Web for langue

Historical Examples of langue

This, the langue d'oïl, became at length the French language.
Classic French Course in English
William Cleaver Wilkinson
He died a coward's death, the only one, thank God, of all our langue.
A Knight of the White Cross
G.A. Henty
The language of the north, or langue d'Oil, varied but little from it.
Cassell's History of England, Vol. I (of 9)
Anonymous
Turning from thought to language, we observe that the word is derived from the French langue, or tongue.
Essays on Life, Art and Science
Samuel Butler
The speech of the Basque country is first of all a langue, not a corrupted, mixed-up patois.
Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces
Francis Miltoun

British Dictionary definitions for langue

langue

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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