A language which has lost its speakers. / A language posited against actual evidence, a merely fancied natural language.

plural of ghost language

plural of logical language

Language that is given a unique legal status in an international organisation or other supranational body as its primary means of communication.

(translation studies) A translator's or interpreter's active language, i.e. in which they are fluent and into which they are able to translate or interpret from their other working languages, but which is not their mother tongue.

Alternative form of minilanguage

plural of mini-language

The Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in the Sydney region, comprising both Dharuk and Eora.

(translation studies) A language that a translator or interpreter knows passively only, i.e. from which they are able to translate or interpret into their active languages, but not the reverse.

(artificial intelligence) A machine learning model that assigns probabilities to sequences of characters or words, and/or is capable of generating plausible subsequent text from a given prompt.