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The 31 pages that link to Language, each with the reason it gives.

• Language familyNarrower topic: Families group particular languages within the broader phenomenon of human language.

• DialogueNarrower topic: Language supplies the signs through which spoken and written dialogue is often conducted.

• Endangered languageNarrower topic: Endangerment concerns the continued use of a language system, not merely a shrinking vocabulary.

• DialectsNarrower topic: The boundary between a language and its dialects is not determined by structure alone.

• Dialect continuumNarrower topic: The distinction between a language and a dialect is often less clear than a continuum suggests.

• Social interactionNarrower topic: Language supplies shared resources for expressing and interpreting many interactions.

• Johann Gottfried HerderNarrower topic: Herder treated language as constitutive of thought rather than a mere tool for expressing it.

• DiscourseNarrower topic: Language is the broader system; discourse concerns its patterned use under social and historical conditions.

• CommunicationNarrower topic: Language provides a powerful shared system for expressing and interpreting meanings.

• Leonard BloomfieldNarrower topic: Bloomfield’s methods treat language as observable linguistic behavior organized into patterns.

• Eugène IonescoNarrower topic: Ionesco’s drama makes language’s social routines and failures visible onstage.

• Pluricentric languageNarrower topic: The pluricentric label classifies a language by the number of its standard centers.

• Tower of BabelNarrower topic: The story turns language itself into the means by which collective action breaks down.

• Origin of speechNarrower topic: Speech is one way humans express language, not language itself.