artificial language
noun[CorU]
languagespecializeduk/ˌɑː.tɪ.fɪʃ.əl ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/us/ˌɑːr.t̬ə.fɪʃ.əl ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/alanguagethat has beencreatedfor aparticularpurpose,ratherthan one that hasdevelopednaturallyas a way forpeopletocommunicate:
人工语言Esperantoisperhapsthe best-known of allartificiallanguages.世界语可能是所有人工语言中最著名的。
Programminglanguagesareartificiallanguagesin which thesyntaxandsemanticsarestrictlydefined.编程语言是人工语言，其句法和语义是经过严格定义的。
Hecategorizedseventypesof speech-form, which werestandardlanguage,classicallanguage,artificiallanguage,vernacular,dialect,creoleandpidgin.他将语言分为七种类型，即标准语言、古典语言、人工语言、白话、方言、通用混合语和洋泾浜语。
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natural language
- This is anartificiallanguageoriginallydevelopedforstudiesthatletresearcherslookat theeffectsoffamiliarversusnovelsoundsand words.
- Artificiallanguages, such as thosedevisedforcomputers, have nogendercategories.
- Aprogramminglanguageis anartificiallanguageoften morerestrictiveordemandingthannaturallanguages, buteasilytranslatedby thecomputer.
- Naturallanguagesariseunconsciously,haphazardly, whileartificiallanguageslackexpressiveness.
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- etymologically
- flowery
- oxymoron
- philological
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism
- prescriptivist
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