Language
Language noun - The stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication.
Usage example: Great Britain, the United States, Australia, and other countries where English is the dominant language
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Parlance
Parlance noun - A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.
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- He said in an interview "The point was to [coin] a phrase that sounded as if it had been in the language for years but was in fact invented for the show." It has since become common parlance.
Source: The Catch Phrase Catches On -
It is extremely common for Muslims of any language and ethnicity to pepper their own native tongue with literally hundreds or thousands of different bits of Arabic religious parlance, to the point where many sentences of theirs could hardly be said to be in any other language at all.
Source: Poirot Speak - Much of the wording in Alice in Wonderland was meant to be surreal and strange, but has actually made its way into common parlance so that it seems perfectly normal to a modern reader note (not unlike the Bard's contributions to the English language).
Source: "Weird Al" Effect
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Parlance and Language. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/language/parlance
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Parlance or Language. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/language/parlance.
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