What is another word for modern languages?

Pronunciation: [mˈɒdən lˈaŋɡwɪd͡ʒɪz] (IPA)

"Modern languages" is a term that is commonly used to describe languages that are widely spoken in the world today. Some synonyms that can be used to refer to these languages include contemporary languages, current languages, present-day languages, and up-to-date languages. Other terms that can be used to describe modern languages include modern-day languages, new languages, and current vernacular. These terms are often used interchangeably in academic settings and are used to distinguish modern languages from those that may have gone extinct or are no longer widely spoken. Overall, there are many different ways to describe modern languages, and each term provides a nuanced perspective on the subject.

What are the hypernyms for Modern languages?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    communicated languages, human languages, living languages, verbal languages.

Famous quotes with Modern languages

  • We are accustomed to talking of church and state, and a whole series of pairs of words that go with them lay and ecclesiastical, secular and religious, spiritual and temporal, and so on. These pairs of words simply do not exist in classical Islamic terminology, because the dichotomy that these words express is unknown. They are used in the modern languages. In Arabic, they borrow the terminology used by Christian Arabs. They are fortunate in having a substantial Christian population using Arabic, and they therefore have a good part of the modern terminology at their disposal, in their own language. In Turkish, Persian, Urdu and other languages of Islam, they had to invent new words.
    Bernard Lewis
  • To amuse is not to teach. The object of teaching is to erect a framework of knowledge in a child's mind and gradually to bring the child as near as may be to the average level of intelligence. Later in life the facts taught by experience and new discoveries will add themselves to this framework. It is wrong to attempt to upset this natural order and to appeal to a child's mind by diverting it with the spectacle of modern life. Teaching by means of pictures, radio, and the cinema is in itself ineffective; these methods must not be used unless they involve (and this is possible) some effort or special enthusiasm. That which is learned without difficulty is soon forgotten, and for the same reason, oral instruction which does not require the pupil's personal participation is almost always rather useless. Eloquence slides in and out of young minds. To listen is not to work. (Naturally this does not apply to the teaching of modern languages.)
    André Maurois

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