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natlang

noun

Etymology

Blend of natural + language, by analogy with conlang. By surface analysis, nat (clipping of natural) + -lang.

  1. derived from *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s✻
  2. derived from dingua
  3. derived from lingua
  4. derived from *linguāticum✻
  5. derived from language
  6. inherited from langage
  7. compounded as natlang — “natural + language”

Definitions

  1. A natural language, one that arose without intentional design.

    • Proto-Indo-European was a natlang that can only be reconstructed with the help of its attested daughter languages.
    • is it true or not true that anything that can be said in mathematical notation, however advanced it may be, must at some point or another ALSO be sayable in ordinary natlang words?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for natlang. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA