langage

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French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (tongue, speech, language) (whence langue). By surface analysis, langue +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lɑ̃.ɡaʒ/
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Noun

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langage m (plural langages)

  1. language: word choice and usage
    Surveille ton langage !Watch your language!
    • 2014, Jean-Claude Bernardon, Résolution de conflits:
      Votre langage doit vous permettre de maintenir une bonne distance de sécurité, être un peu plus poli et détaché que nécessaire est un avantage.
      Your language has to allow you to maintain a good safe distance, to be a little more polite and detached than necessary is an advantage.
    • 2018 June 22, “Mort de Koko, le gorille qui parlait le langage des signes”, in Le Point[1]:
      Koko, une gorille devenue mondialement célèbre pour sa maîtrise du langage des signes et vue par beaucoup comme un modèle d’empathie avec les humains, est morte mercredi à 46 ans en Californie, a annoncé la Gorilla Foundation qui suivait l’animal.
      Koko, a gorilla famous worldwide for her mastery of sign language and seen by many as a model of empathy with humans, died on Wednesday aged 46 years in California, the Gorilla Foundation, which followed the animal, has announced.
  2. (computing) programming language

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Haitian Creole: langaj
  • Mauritian Creole: langaz
  • Louisiana Creole: langaj
  • Romanian: limbaj (partial calque)

Further reading

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French language; from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lanˈɡaːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /lanˈɡwaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

Noun

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langage (plural langages)

  1. language, tongue, speech
  2. dialect, idiom, local speech
  3. discussion, talk
  4. country (with a shared language)

Synonyms

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Descendants

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References

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Old French

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Noun

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langage oblique singularm (oblique plural langages, nominative singular langages, nominative plural langage)

  1. Alternative form of language