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The correct spelling is languages.
How to pronounce languages
/ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒɪz/
nounIPA: /ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒɪz/
Say it like: Lan-gua-jes
The correct spelling is languages. A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication. For example: "Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL."
Usage Examples
“Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.”
“the gift of language”
“legal language; the language of chemistry”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
- 2.The ability to communicate using words.
- 3.A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
- 4.The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
- 5.A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
verb
- 1.To communicate by language; to express in language.
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