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LANGUAGES

Broader concept

  • HUMANITIES
  • LANGUAGE

Narrower concepts

  • AFRICAN LANGUAGES
  • AMERINDIAN LANGUAGES
  • ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGES
  • ASIAN LANGUAGES
  • AUSTRONESIAN AND OCEANIC LANGUAGES
  • CAUCASIAN LANGUAGES
  • CLASSICAL LANGUAGES
  • INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
  • MODERN LANGUAGES
  • NATIONAL LANGUAGES
  • OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
  • SEMITIC LANGUAGES
  • WORKING LANGUAGES

Related concepts

  • ALPHABET
  • GRAMMAR
  • IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
  • INTERPRETING
  • LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION
  • LANGUAGE LABORATORIES
  • LINGUISTICS
  • LITERATURE
  • MULTILINGUALISM
  • NEW WORDS
  • ORTHOGRAPHY
  • PHONETICS
  • PRONUNCIATION
  • RHETORIC
  • SEMANTICS
  • SYNTAX
  • TRANSLATION

In other languages

Arabic

  • اللغات

Chinese

  • 语言

French

  • LANGUES

Russian

  • Языки

Spanish

  • LENGUAS

URI

http://metadata.un.org/thesaurus/1003621

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