Definition of natural language Natural language
nat•u•ral lan•guage
We found 5 definitions of natural language from 4 different sources.
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What does natural language mean?
WordNet
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| natural language - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language | ||
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| artificial language a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose | ||
| linguistic communication, language the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals" | ||
| first language, maternal language, mother tongue one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next | ||
| tonal language, tone language a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings | ||
| creole a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages | ||
| american-indian language, amerind, amerindian language, american indian, indian any of the languages spoken by Amerindians | ||
| eskimo-aleut, eskimo-aleut language the family of languages that includes Eskimo and Aleut | ||
| chukchi language, chukchi an indigenous and isolated language of unknown origin spoken by the Chukchi that is pronounced differently by men and women | ||
| sino-tibetan, sino-tibetan language the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia | ||
| austro-asiatic, austro-asiatic language, munda-mon-khmer a family of languages spoken in southern and southeastern Asia | ||
| hmong language, hmong, miao a language of uncertain affiliation spoken by the Hmong | ||
| austronesian language, austronesian the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia | ||
| papuan language, papuan any of the indigenous languages spoken in Papua New Guinea or New Britain or the Solomon Islands that are not Malayo-Polynesian languages | ||
| khoisan, khoisan language a family of languages spoken in southern Africa | ||
| indo-european language, indo-hittite, indo-european the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia | ||
| ural-altaic a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian) | ||
| basque the language of the Basque people; of no known relation to any other language | ||
| elamitic, susian, elamite an extinct ancient language of unknown affinities; spoken by the Elamites | ||
| cassite, kassite an ancient language spoken by the Kassites | ||
| caucasian language, caucasian a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere | ||
| dravidian language, dravidic, dravidian a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka | ||
| afrasian, afrasian language, afro-asiatic, afroasiatic, afroasiatic language, hamito-semitic a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa | ||
| niger-kordofanian, niger-kordofanian language the family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara; the majority of them are tonal languages but there are important exceptions (e.g., Swahili or Fula) | ||
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Wiktionary 
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natural language
A language which has developed over time as a result of the innate human ability for language.
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- A Natural language is a language which is not articifial.
