adj
(linguistics, conlanging) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.
adj
Of or pertaining to acronyms
adj
Of, pertaining to, or afflicted by agrammatism.
adj
Of or pertaining to ambigrams.
adj
Alternative form of anagrammatic [Being or relating to an anagram.]
adj
(very rare) Of or relating to anagrammatism or an anagrammatist.
adj
(linguistics) Pertaining to anomalism
adj
Short for colexicographic. [Being or relating to a variant of lexicographic order in which finite sequences are read from right to left instead of from left to right.]
n
(linguistics) A method used to study an unknown language, consisting of archaeological and antiquarian analysis, formal-structural analysis, and content and context analysis.
n
(linguistics) A technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with a common ancestor.
adj
Of or relating to cryptogrammar.
n
(linguistics) The study of demonyms.
adj
Of or pertaining to a diagram or to diagrammatics.
adj
(linguistics) Relating to diaphasia
adj
(linguistics, uncommon) Having two morae.
adj
(linguistics) Consisting of two stems or themes, usually of given names.
adj
(linguistics) Of or relating to a form of communication that is incidental to some practical activity, characterized by fragmentary utterances and more silence than a conversation.
adj
Of or pertaining to an endonym.
adj
(linguistics) Pertaining to a series of utterances between two people who do not speak the same language.
n
(linguistics) A table showing dialectal features correlated with age and location.
n
The science of tongues or languages
adj
Of or relating to grammatists.
n
(phonology, usually humorous) Synonym of haplology (“(uncountable) the process of deleting one of two almost identical syllables within a word; (countable) an instance of this”)
n
(linguistics) A word whose etymological roots come from distinct, different languages or language groups.
adj
(linguistics) Pertaining to the stage of development where a child produces simple one-word utterances.
adj
Relating to homophora.
n
(linguistics) A word whose elements are derived from different languages.
adj
Of or pertaining to hyponyms.
adj
Of or pertaining to ideograms.
adj
(linguistics) Between dialects.
adj
(linguistics) Pertaining to multiple languages with different roots.
adj
(linguistics) epenthetic
n
(linguistics) A line on a map indicating the geographical boundaries of a linguistic feature.
n
An isogloss indicating where a certain word is used.
n
A method of language learning based on mutual practice by learning partners who speak different languages.
adj
Of or relating to a lexeme.
adv
(domain) In terms of a lexicon.
adv
(domain) From the perspective of lexicography.
adj
Relating to lexis and morphology.
adj
Of or relating to lexicophonology.
n
(linguistics) The adaptation of word forms to reflect pronunciation.
adj
Relating to lexicosemantics.
adj
Of or relating to lexicosyntax.
adj
Being or relating to a logotype.
n
(linguistic morphology) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.
n
(linguistics) A group of two or more related language phylums
adj
Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
adj
(linguistics) Relating to a mesolect.
adj
(linguistics) Treating words as words, rather than interacting with their meaning.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a monogram.
adj
(linguistics) Of or relating to morphemics or to a morpheme.
adj
Relating to morphology and lexicon.
adj
(linguistics) Of or relating to morphosemantics.
n
(linguistics) Science concerned with the human brain mechanisms underlying the comprehension, production and abstract knowledge of language, be it spoken, signed or written.
adj
Relating to nomenclature; nomenclatural.
adj
(linguistics, rare) Of or exhibiting oligosemy.
adj
Of, relating to, or being a palindrome.
adj
Pertaining to elements of speech beside the lexicon and grammar. Prosodic, paralinguistic.
adj
(linguistics) Of or relating to paralipsis.
adj
Relating to a change from the true form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc.
adj
of, or relating to paronomasia; punning
adj
Of or relating to peritext.
adj
(linguistics) Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship.
n
(dated) The science dealing with vocal sounds; phonetics.
adj
Relating to phrasemes.
adj
(linguistics) Of a basic unit of a writing system: having a specific meaning associated with it.
n
(linguistics) The theory that languages developed independently in different places at different periods, as opposed to originating from a single source.
n
(linguistics) The interdisciplinary field of study which concerns the acquisition, comprehension and production of language in its spoken, written and signed forms, using concepts and approaches from linguistics, psychology and cognitive science.
adj
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to word formation.
n
The portion of something that carries information or meaning, such a DNA molecule or the semantic component of a Chinese character.
adj
(linguistics, rare) Of a grapheme: combining semantic and phonetic information.
adj
(of a language or vocabulary) Having a mixture of dialectal and standard words or grammar
n
(linguistics) A person with limited understanding of a particular language.
n
(linguistics) A disorder where a person's language skills are retarded or abnormally poor for unknown reasons.
adj
Of or relating to a sublanguage, or to part of a language.
adj
(linguistics) Specifically, pertaining to a substrate language.
n
(linguistics) A subordinate language variety.
n
(linguistics) A dialectological category between the levels of language and dialect.
adj
Being or relating to a supradialect.
adj
Being or relating to a synanagram.
adj
(crystallography) Relating to, or displaying, syntaxy.
n
(linguistics) determinative (ideogram)
n
terminological lexicography
adj
Of or relating to a texteme.
adj
(prosody) of or pertaining to a thesis
n
(linguistics, uncountable) The phenomenon of translingually relevant aspects of language.
n
The place names of a region or language
adj
Relating to, or exhibiting, verbigeration.
n
(phonetics) A sound in speech that is not native to the language being spoken; a sound from a foreign language
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