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• Knowledge [r]: On one common account by philosophers, justified, true belief; often used in a looser way by everyone else to mean any truth or belief, and also a whole body of truth or a whole system of belief. ^[e]
• Reference work [r]: A collection of information that has been assembled or vetted by experts. ^[e]
• Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Monolingual dictionary [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Oxford English Dictionary [r]: Primary reference work on the English language and its evolution. ^[e]
• Bilingual dictionary [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Multilingual dictionary [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lexicon [r]: Complete set of vocabulary units for a language, including information on their structural specifications (semantic, morphological, syntactic and phonological properties, plus how they inter-relate); also, the mental representation of this lexical knowledge and, in casual usage, a synonym for vocabulary. The word is also common in the titles of dictionaries of Arabic, Aramaic/Syriac, ancient Greek and Hebrew. ^[e]

Other related topics

• American English [r]: Any of the spoken and written variants of the English language originating in the United States of America; widely used around the world. ^[e]
• British English [r]: Any of the spoken and written variants of the English language originating in the United Kingdom; widely used around the world, especially in current and former countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. ^[e]
• Canadian English [r]: Any of the dialects of English, standard or not, that are used in Canada. ^[e]
• English spellings [r]: Lists of English words showing pronunciation, and articles about letters. ^[e]
• Spelling [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Chinese characters [r]: (simplified Chinese 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字) are symbols used to write varieties of Chinese and - in modified form - other languages; world's oldest writing system in continuous use. ^[e]
• Corpus linguistics [r]: The study of language as expressed in samples (corpora) or 'real world' text. ^[e]
• Encyclopedia [r]: A point of reference for structured knowledge. ^[e]
• Language planning [r]: In sociolinguistics, the name for any political attempt to change the status of a language in some way or develop new ways of using it, e.g. a government devising laws to promote a language, or scholars producing an official dictionary; the former is status planning (changing the political recognition of a language), the latter corpus planning (changing the way a language is used). ^[e]
• Reading [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Reading (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
• Writing [r]: The process of recording thoughts or speech in a visually or haptically retrievable manner. ^[e]
• Book [r]: A bound set of sheets containing written or printed materials, or space for such. ^[e]
• Mother tongue [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Foreign language [r]: A language which is associated with another country or culture and is rarely or never used in a speaker's own community; usually taught in classrooms or through self-study, for practical purposes such as travel or doing business, or for pleasure. ^[e]
• Second language [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bilingualism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Multilingualism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Polyglott [r]: Add brief definition or description