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languoid class
Instances
language
Y 86%
particular system of communication, often named for the region or peoples that use it
Dialect
Y 92%
Variant of a language
Style (sociolinguistics)
Y? 67%
Set of linguistic variants with specific social meanings
Variety (linguistics)
Y? 67%
Specific form of a language or language cluster
Sociolect
Y? 67%
Language variety or register peculiar to a specific social class
Language family
Y? 67%
Group of languages related through a common ancestor
human language
Y? 67%
set of all languages currently or formerly spoken, written, or signed by humans (excluding computer languages and mathematical/logically-formal languages)
languoid
Y? 64%
language, variety of a language, or group of languages
Register (sociolinguistics)
Y? 50%
Form of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular communicative situation
idiom
? TBD
language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc; neutral term between ‘language’ and ‘dialect’
Idiolect
? TBD
An individual's patterns of pronunciation and grammar of a language
Chronolect
? TBD
Language variants linked to temporal conditions
ISO 639 macrolanguage
? TBD
Language scope defined in the ISO 639-3 standard
pluricentric language variant
? TBD
officially regulated variety of a pluricentric language
Fictional language
? TBD
Constructed languages created for a fictional setting
natiolect
? TBD
national variety of a pluricentric language