Roget's Thesaurus

#560. Language

Nouns

language; phraseology etc. 569; speech etc. 582; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect etc. 563. confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie; pantomime etc. (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 etc. (scholar) 492.

Verbs

express by words etc. 566.

Adjectives

lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot, hexaglot, polyglot; literary.

Phrases

syllables govern the world [Selden].