Words About Languaje

Appellation

A name or tittle that distinguishes or identifies.

Diphthong

A speech sound that consists of either two vowels or a vowel and a semivowel (such as y) contained in a single syllable.

Eponym

A person for whom something is or is thought to be named.

Linguistics

The study of human speech, especially its components, structure, and nature, and how it changes.

Neologism

A newly made-up word, phrase, or expression.

Parlance

A particular manner or kind of speech: legal parlance.

Patois

A dialect other than the standard dialect of a language, especially a regional or uneducated form of speech.

Polyglot

Consisting of many groups speaking different languages. Speaking or writing several languages. A person who knows several languages. A mixture of languages.

Solecism

The ungrammatical usage of a word or construction of a sentence.

Vulgar

Spoken by or using the language spoken by the common people rather than literary, cultured, or learned people; vernacular.