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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Synonyms for Language
Speech
Speech noun - The stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication.
Usage example: wanting to develop a writing system for his people, Sequoya created a system of 86 symbols representing all the syllables of Cherokee speech
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Synonyms for Speech
Language is a synonym for speech in dialect topic. You can use "Language" instead a noun "Speech", if it concerns topics such as words, talk, communication, diction. popular alternative
Nearby Word: speechless
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Both words in one sentence
- Examples of conditions where this could happen include autism, the aphasias, schizophrenia, post-stroke or brain-injury, and the various speech/language disorders.
Source: Neologism - Painting the Medium: Whenever non-human/Aquaan speech and language are rendered, a different speech bubble type and font are used.
Source: Webcomic / Harbourmaster - Karadić's reforms of the Serbian literary language modernized it and distanced it from Serbian and Russian Church Slavonic, instead bringing it closer to common folk speech, specifically, to the dialect of Eastern Herzegovina which he spoke.
Source: Creator / Vuk Karadzic
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Speech and Language. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/language/speech
Language & Speech. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/language/speech>.
Speech or Language. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/language/speech.
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