langage

• language (archaic or misspelling)

Inherited from Middle French language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). By surface analysis, langue +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.ɡaʒ/

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langage m (plural langages)

1. language: word choice and usage

   Surveille ton langage ! ― Watch your language!

   • 2014, Jean-Claude Bernardon, Résolution de conflits:

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   • 2018 June 22, “Mort de Koko, le gorille qui parlait le langage des signes”, in Le Point‎:

     Koko, une gorille devenue mondialement célèbre pour sa maîtrise du langage des signes et vue par beaucoup comme un modèle d’empathie avec les humains, est morte mercredi à 46 ans en Californie, a annoncé la Gorilla Foundation qui suivait l’animal.

     Koko, a gorilla famous worldwide for her mastery of sign language and seen by many as a model of empathy with humans, died on Wednesday aged 46 years in California, the Gorilla Foundation, which followed the animal, has announced.

2. (computing) programming language

• see langue

• Haitian Creole: langaj
  • → English: langaj
• Mauritian Creole: langaz
• → Romanian: limbaj (partial calque)

• “langage” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “langage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• language, langag, langwache

From Old French language; from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum.

• IPA^(key): /lanˈɡaːd͡ʒ(ə)/, /lanˈɡwaːd͡ʒ(ə)/

langage (plural langages)

1. language, tongue, speech
2. dialect, idiom, local speech
3. discussion, talk
4. country (with a shared language)

• speche
• tung
• thede
• leden, lede

• English: language

• “langāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.

langage m (oblique plural langages, nominative singular langages, nominative plural langage)

1. Alternative form of language
   • circa 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:

     Si savoit parler mains langages

     He knew how to speak many languages