LANGUAGE SYSTEM

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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)