Hypernyms for "language"

artificial language barrage bombardment charm conversation dead language dictation discussion expression give-and-take idiolect indigenous language interlanguage koine lingua franca linguistic string locution love lyric magic spell magical spell markup language metalanguage monologue native language natural language non-standard speech object language onslaught orthoepy outpouring pronunciation reading saying sign language signing slanguage soliloquy source language spell string of words superstrate superstratum target language tongue toponomy toponymy usage word word string words