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LANGUAGE SYSTEM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A system of linguistic units or elements used in a particular language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("language system" is a kind of...):
scheme; system (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "language system"):
accentual system; prosodic system (the system of accentuation used in a particular language)
morphophonemic system (the morphophonemics of a particular language)
phonemic system (the system of phonemes recognized in a language)
phonologic system; phonological system (the system of phones used in a particular language)
syllabicity (the pattern of syllable formation in a particular language)
tense system (a system of tenses used in a particular language)
