modern language
Currently spoken speech
A modern language is a language currently spoken and evolving, as distinguished from classical or dead languages like Latin or Ancient Greek.
The term appears most often in educational contexts: a modern language requirement, a department of modern languages.
French, Spanish, German, and Mandarin are typical examples in Western curricula.
- native speakerOne who grew up speaking it
- everyday speechInformal spoken communication
- spoken wordPoetry delivered aloud
- phoneticsStudy of speech sounds
- pragmaticsLanguage-in-context study
linguistics · dialectology · semiotics · syntax · vernacular · dynamic equivalence · multilingualism · code-switching · readability · cultural adaptation · morphology · creole · Esperanto · pidgin · textual analysis · globalization · sociolinguistics · philology
modern languagedead language
Tongue no longer spoken natively
ancient language · extinct language · classical language · Latin · Ancient Greek
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