NATURALLANGUAGE

Natural language

In the philosophy of language, a natural language is any language which arises in an unpremeditated fashion as the result of the innate facility for language possessed by the human intellect. A natural language is typically used for communication, and may be spoken, signed, or written. Natural language is distinguished from constructed languages and formal languages such as computer-programming languages or the "languages" used in the study of formal logic, especially mathematical logic.

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natural language

Noun

  1. a human language which has evolved naturally in a community, usually in contrast to computer programming languages or to artificially constructed languages such as .
  2. natural languages (sense 1) considered collectively
    • It'll be a long time before computers understand natural language.


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