language variety
specific form of a language or language cluster
Vulgar Latin
non-standard Latin variety spoken by the people of Ancient Rome
renaissance Latin
Latin as spoken and written in the Renaissance
cant
language term for jargon or argot of a group
dialect
geographically- or socially-determined language variety
New Caledonian French
French variety of New Caledonia
Mid-Minch Gaelic
pan-regional form of Scottish Gaelic
Malaysian Tamil
local variant of Tamil spoken in Malaysia
high register standard
more demanding form of standard language, chiefly used in writing and formal communication
gay male speech
speech characteristics common among gay men
Standard Basque
standard dialect of Basque, heavily based on Central Basque
Baghdad Arabic
variety of Mesopotamian Arabic spoken in Baghdad, Iraq
Nepali
official language of Nepal
baby talk
usually delivered with a "cooing" pattern of intonation different from that of normal adult speech: high in pitch, with many glissando variations that are more pronounced than those of normal speech
written language
language which has a writing system and a written component
complementary distribution
linguistic phenomenon where some phonemes of a language are found in some cases and others are found in similar but different cases; often indicating sound change and divergent mutual descents
SMS language
variety of language and slang with heavy use of abbreviations, commonly used with mobile phone text messaging, or other Internet-based communication such as email and instant messaging.
Socotra Swahili
extinct Swahili variety of Socotra Island, Yemen
Town Bemba
Bemba variety of Zambia
subdialect
dialectological category between the levels of dialect and idiolect
Law Latin
form of Latin used in law
common language
language variety accepted and understood by the entirety of a linguistic community, often identified with the standard or literary language or a lower register of it
Saudi language
language variety
translationese
awkward, unnatural, or ungrammatical variety of language, due to overly literal translation of foreign idioms or syntax
Church Slavonic language edition
territorial variety of Church Slavonic
Japanese military pidgin
pidgin language used by the Imperial Japanese military in contact with the Chinese people
transitional language variety
transitional lect between two or more languages
Cameroonian French
dialect of French spoken mainly in Cameroon
Classical Chinese
language of the Sino-Tibetan language family in written form (ISO 639-3: lzh) as opposed to the spoken, known as Old Chinese (ISO 639-3: och) or Middle Chinese (ISO 639-3: ltc)
literary language
form of a language used in its literary writing, either a non-standard dialect or standardized variety of the language
Late Latin
written Latin of late antiquity
Eastern Asturian
Dialect of Asturian
written language
denoting those languages who have (possibly solely) a written component
Classical Malay
variety of Malay
standard variety
standardized variety of a single language as opposed to vernacular dialects, sociolects, etc.
idiolect
an individual's patterns of pronunciation and grammar of a language
Kyowa-go
pidginized languages, either Japanese-based or Chinese-based, spoken in Manchukuo in the 1930s and 1940s
colloquial language
style of language used for casual communication
botanical latin
technical language based on New Latin
accent
a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual