natural language

Questions about natural language

What does natural language mean?

natural language means "a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language".

What is another word for natural language?

Close synonyms include tongue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of natural language?

The recorded antonyms are artificial language.

Is natural language a common word?

natural language is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.