Data and Language

Data

Data noun - A collection of factual knowledge about something.

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Language and data are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Language" instead a noun "Data".

Language noun - The stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication.

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Data and language are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Data" instead a noun "Language".

human	human data	human language
old	old data	old language
similar	similar data	similar language
original	original data	original language
Other adjectives: actual, real, bad, secret, new, official, basic, said.

It's a heavily abbreviated weather report designed to condense as much information as possible into a message that can be transmitted very quickly, and be understood regardless of the reader's native language (which is to say, it's pretty much all data and no language at all).

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The programming language LOGO was named after the Greek word for "word," and while it always did have words and sentences as data structures, it's best known for something completely different: turtle graphics.

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In short: while we can read Ancient Egyptian, there is little data on how it was pronounced, and the sounds we assign the language today are probably off from what the actual language sounded like.

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Language and Data. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/data/language

Data & Language. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/data/language>.

Language or Data. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/data/language.

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