Leid

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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

  • Leet o leids
  • Orthography
  • Philology an Historical lingueistics
  • Philosophy o leid
  • Phonology
  • Psycholingueistics
  • Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
  • Mither tongue
  • Saicont leid
  • Semantics