Noun

• S: (n) substrate (the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment)
• S: (n) substrate, substratum (a surface on which an organism grows or is attached) "the gardener talked about the proper substrate for acid-loving plants"
• S: (n) substrate, substratum (any stratum or layer lying underneath another)
• S: (n) substrate, substratum (an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population) "the Celtic languages of Britain are a substrate for English"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) indigenous language (a language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) substrate, substratum (an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population) "the Celtic languages of Britain are a substrate for English"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) language, linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written"
• S: (n) usage (the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written) "English usage"; "a usage borrowed from French"
• S: (n) dead language (a language that is no longer learned as a native language)
• S: (n) words (language that is spoken or written) "he has a gift for words"; "she put her thoughts into words"
• S: (n) source language (a language that is to be translated into another language)
• S: (n) object language, target language (the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated)
• S: (n) sign language, signing (language expressed by visible hand gestures)
• S: (n) artificial language (a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose)
• S: (n) metalanguage (a language that can be used to describe languages)
• S: (n) native language (the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood)
• S: (n) indigenous language (a language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere)
• S: (n) superstrate, superstratum (the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language)
• S: (n) natural language, tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)
• S: (n) lingua franca, interlanguage, koine (a common language used by speakers of different languages) "Koine is a dialect of ancient Greek that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely spoken throughout the eastern Mediterranean area in Roman times"
• S: (n) string of words, word string, linguistic string (a linear sequence of words as spoken or written)
• S: (n) barrage, bombardment, outpouring, onslaught (the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)) "a barrage of questions"; "a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake"
• S: (n) slanguage (language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant)