English-Finnish translations for language

• kieli
  Itsenäisyys on kieli ja kieli on itsenäisyyttä. Independence is language and language is independence.
  Myös kieli saattaa olla syynä valintaan. There might be a language link.
  Mielenkiintoinen asia on kieli. The language used is interesting.
• intiaanikieli

Definition of language

• A body of words, and set of methods of combining them , understood by a community and used as a form of communication
• The ability to communicate using words
• A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field
• The expression of thought in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does
• A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate
• A computer language; a machine language
• Manner of expression
• The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text
• Profanity
• To communicate by language; to express in language
• A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ

Examples

• The English language and the German language are related
• Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL
• the gift of language
• legal language;   the language of chemistry
• body language;   the language of the eyes
• The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation
• The language he used to talk to me was obscene

Related words

• German-language
• proto-language
• foreign-language
• Swedish-language
• English-language
• languages
• paralanguage
• interlanguage
• metalanguage
• macrolanguage