Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

560. Language — N. language; phraseology &c 569; speech &c 582;

tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect &c 563. confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie†; pantomime &c (signs) 550; onomatopoeia; betacism†, mimmation, myatism†, nunnation†; pasigraphy†. lexicology, philology, glossology†, glottology†; linguistics, chrestomathy†; paleology†, paleography; comparative grammar. literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres [Fr.], muses, humanities, literae humaniores [Lat.], republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship &c (scholar) 492. V. express by words &c 566. Adj. lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot†, hexaglot†, polyglot; literary. Phr. syllables govern the world [Selden].