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natlang

natlang noun: a natural language, one that arose without intentional design.

Noun

natlang (plural natlangs)

  1. (informal, natural language processing) A natural language, one that arose without intentional design.
    • 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.1997 March 31, Tiro Typeworks, “Conlang to Natlang”, in sci.lang (Usenet)

Antonyms of natlang

Forms of natlang

pluralnatlangs

Origin of natlang

Syllabic abbreviation of natural language, by analogy with conlang. By surface analysis, nat (clipping of natural) + -lang.

Questions about natlang

What does natlang mean?
Natlang means a natural language, one that arose without intentional design.
What part of speech is natlang?
Natlang is a noun.
What is the plural of natlang?
The plural of natlang is natlangs.

Words near natlang in the dictionary

  1. nativized
  2. nativizes
  3. nativizing
  4. natl.
  5. natla
  6. natlang
  7. natlangs
  8. natlot
  9. Natmeg
  10. Natmegs
  11. nato

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