natlang
natlang
English
Noun
Ad
Definition
a natural language, one that arose without intentional design.
Etymology
Blend of natural + language, by analogy with conlang. By surface analysis, nat (clipping of natural) + -lang.
Example Sentences
- "Proto-Indo-European was a natlang that can only be reconstructed with the help of its attested daughter languages."
- "Regionalism is not a characteristic feature of natlangs, at least not in modern societies. People move around so much nowadays, that the effort is to conserve the differences rather than to conserve the similarities between different people's speech."
- "is it true or not true that anything that can be said in mathematical notation, however advanced it may be, must at some point or another ALSO be sayable in ordinary natlang words?"
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