sublanguage

Noun

sublanguage (plural sublanguages)

1. A subset of a language, in particular of a programming language.
   • DML is considered a sublanguage of SQL. It's concerned with manipulating data stored in the database. DML consists of four commonly used statements: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE.2015, Miguel Cebollero, Michael Coles, Jay Natarajan, Pro T-SQL Programmer's Guide, Apress, →ISBN, page 4
2. A language restricted to a specific context, such as a particular subject area.
   • the sublanguage of weather bulletins
   • We define sublanguage here as the particular language used in a body of texts dealing with a circumscribed subject area (often reports or articles on a technical speciality or science subfield), in which the authors share a common vocabulary and common habits of word usage.1982, Richard Kittredge, John Lehrberger, editors, Sublanguage: Studies of Language in Restricted Semantic Domains, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 27