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Language can refer to:

• Language, a set of symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them
  • Human language, a language primarily intended for communication between humans
  • Natural language, a language used naturally by humans
  • Artificial language, a language created for a specific purpose
    • Constructed language, an artificial language for communication between humans
      • Engineered language, devised to test or prove some hypothesis about how languages work or might work
        • Philosophical language, an engineered language that entails a strong claim of absolute perfection, transcendent, or even mystical truth
      • Auxiliary language, a language meant for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common native language
      • Artistic language, a constructed language designed for aesthetic pleasure, such as those for fictional universes
        • Fictional language, an artistic language intended to be the language of a fictional world
    • Formal language, a concept used in mathematics and computer science
    • Programming language, an artificial language designed to express computations

• language, a journal of the Linguistic Society of America

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