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Definition of Natural language
1. Noun. A human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language.
Generic synonyms: Language, Linguistic Communication
Specialized synonyms: First Language, Maternal Language, Mother Tongue, Tonal Language, Tone Language, Creole, American Indian, American-indian Language, Amerind, Amerindian Language, Indian, Eskimo-aleut, Eskimo-aleut Language, Chukchi, Chukchi Language, Sino-tibetan, Sino-tibetan Language, Austro-asiatic, Austro-asiatic Language, Munda-mon-khmer, Hmong, Hmong Language, Miao, Austronesian, Austronesian Language, Papuan, Papuan Language, Khoisan, Khoisan Language, Indo-european, Indo-european Language, Indo-hittite, Ural-altaic, Basque, Elamite, Elamitic, Susian, Cassite, Kassite, Caucasian, Caucasian Language, Dravidian, Dravidian Language, Dravidic, Afrasian, Afrasian Language, Afro-asiatic, Afroasiatic, Afroasiatic Language, Hamito-semitic, Niger-kordofanian, Niger-kordofanian Language, Nilo-saharan, Nilo-saharan Language
Antonyms: Artificial Language
Definition of Natural language
1. Noun. (retronym countable) a human language which has evolved naturally in a community, usually in contrast to computer programming languages or to artificially constructed languages such as Esperanto. ¹
2. Noun. natural languages (sense 1) considered collectivelym ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Natural Language
Literary usage of Natural language
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization by Edward Burnett Tylor (1904)
"Sign-making, — Gesture-language, — Sound-gestures, 95 — natural language, —
Utterances of Animals, — Emotional and Imitative Sounds in Language, ..."
2. Essays: On Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and by James Beattie (1779)
"What then is meant by natural language? ... I. An idea of natural language.
'T'HE term natural language has ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Reid, D.D., Now Fully Collected, with Selections from by Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Dugald Stewart (1863)
"The elements of this natural language of mankind, or the signs that are naturally
... Dumb people retain much more of the natural language than others, ..."
4. The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis (1912)
"... French—Its Disadvantages—The Modern Growth of National Feeling opposed to
Selection of a natural language— Advantages of an Artificial Language—Demands ..."
5. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1993)
"natural language processing is used to (1) preprocess the documents in order to
extract contents-carrying terms, (2) discover inter- term dependencies and ..."
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