tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue;
household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect &c 563.
confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie†; pantomime &c (signs)
550; onomatopoeia; betacism†, mimmation, myatism†, nunnation†;
pasigraphy†.
lexicology, philology, glossology†, glottology†; linguistics,
chrestomathy†; paleology†, paleography; comparative grammar.
literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres [Fr.],
muses, humanities, literae humaniores [Lat.], republic of letters, dead
languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship &c (scholar) 492.
V. express by words &c 566.
Adj. lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual;
diglot†, hexaglot†, polyglot; literary.
Phr. syllables govern the world [Selden].