Leid
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For ither uisses, see Leid (disambiguation)
The concept o leid can be exponed in monie weys, for example:
- a wey o communicatin anent things, acts an ideas
- a set o meanins common tae sindry fowk
- a form o thocht
- seembols impleein actions or inactions
But the chief meanin o leid is human leid.
Some fowk says that ainimals haes leids or can be teached leids; ithers disna gree wi this, an says that "ainimal leids" isna complicate or meaninfu eneuch tae be cried "leids", or that thay dinna hae the grammar needit tae be thocht o as leids; this o coorse lippens on the defeneition o leid a bodie is wirkin wi.
Mathaematics an computer science uises leids cried formal leids (like computer programmin leids). Mathematics itsel is conseidert a leid bi monie theorists.
[edit] See an aw
- Dialect
- Leet o leids
- Orthography
- Philology an Historical lingueistics
- Philosophy o leid
- Phonology
- Psycholingueistics
- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
- Mither tongue
- Saicont leid
- Semantics
