Meanings
plural natural languages
- countableretronymuncountablehuman sciencesAny human communication signal system that has evolved organically in a community into a language system and has become culturally generalized.
We argue that this theory is a good basis for crosslinguistically consistent annotation of typologically diverse languages in a way that supports computational natural language understanding as well as broader linguistic studies.
2021 June 28, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Christopher D. Manning, Joakim Nivre, Daniel Zeman, “Universal Dependencies”, in Computational Linguistics, volume 47, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 255–3081 more example
The area of artificial intelligence represented here is that of work designed to produce computer programs capable of analysing natural language, usually for some practical purpose such as the construction of question answering or of machine translation systems.
1983, “Preface”, in Margaret King, editor, Parsing Natural Language, Academic Press, →ISBN, page vii
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic لُغَةْ طَبِيعِيَّة
- لُغَةْ طَبِيعِيَّة (luḡat ṭabīʕiyya)human language developed naturally
Basque lengoaia natural
- lengoaia naturalhuman language developed naturally
Bulgarian есте́ствен ези́к
- есте́ствен ези́к (estéstven ezík)human language developed naturally
Chinese Mandarin 自然語言 /自然语言
- 自然語言 /自然语言 (zìrán yǔyán)human language developed naturally
Czech přirozený jazyk
- přirozený jazykhuman language developed naturally
Esperanto natura lingvo
- natura lingvohuman language developed naturally
Estonian loomulik keel
- loomulik keelhuman language developed naturally
Finnish luonnollinen kieli
- luonnollinen kielihuman language developed naturally
French langue naturelle
- langue naturellehuman language developed naturally
German natürliche Sprache
- natürliche Sprachehuman language developed naturally
Hebrew שפה טבעית
- שפה טבעיתhuman language developed naturally
Hindi प्राकृतिक भाषा
- प्राकृतिक भाषा (prākŕtik bhāṣā)human language developed naturally
Hungarian természetes nyelv
- természetes nyelvhuman language developed naturally
Irish teanga nádúrtha
- teanga nádúrthahuman language developed naturally
Italian linguaggio naturale
- linguaggio naturalehuman language developed naturally
Japanese 自然言語
- 自然言語 (shizengengo)human language developed naturally
Korean 자연어
- 자연어 (jayeoneo)human language developed naturally
Lithuanian natūralioji kalba
- natūralioji kalbahuman language developed naturally
Persian زبان طبیعی
- زبان طبیعی (zabân-e tabi'i)human language developed naturally
Polish język naturalny
- język naturalnyhuman language developed naturally
Portuguese língua natural
- língua naturalhuman language developed naturally
Romanian limbă naturală
- limbă naturalăhuman language developed naturally
Russian есте́ственный язы́к
- есте́ственный язы́к (jestéstvennyj jazýk)human language developed naturally
Spanish lengua natural
- lengua naturalhuman language developed naturally
Swahili lugha asilia
- lugha asiliahuman language developed naturally
Thai ภาษาธรรมชาติ
- ภาษาธรรมชาติ (paasăa tammáchâat)human language developed naturally
Turkish doğal dil, tabii lisan
- doğal dilhuman language developed naturally
- tabii lisanhuman language developed naturally
Ukrainian приро́дна мо́ва
- приро́дна мо́ва (pryródna móva)human language developed naturally
Vietnamese ngôn ngữ tự nhiên
- ngôn ngữ tự nhiênhuman language developed naturally
Cite this entry
natural language. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/natural%20language
“natural language.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/natural%20language. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “natural language,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/natural%20language.
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