English-Italian translations for language

• lingua
  La cultura è legata alla lingua così come la lingua è legata alla cultura. Culture is language-bound and language is culture-bound.
  La quarta azione è LINGUA, lezioni di lingua e acquisizione linguistica. The fourth is Lingua, covering the teaching and learning of languages.
  La mia lingua, il catalano, fa parte di questo gruppo. My language, Catalan, is one of these languages.
• idioma
• linguaggio
  Questo è un linguaggio piuttosto chiaro. That is rather clear language.
  E' evidente già dal linguaggio usato. The language alone is revealing.
  Il linguaggio di Milosevic è la violenza! Mr Milosevic's language is the language of force!
• pavano
• turkmeno

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