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Ruth, you can check the colexifications database CLICS, under concepts like tongue, speak and language. This is a link to 'language':</div>
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<b>Emne:</b> [Lingtyp] Know of any typological work on the lexico-semantics of words for 'language' cross-linguistically?</font>
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Hi,</p>
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Does anyone know of work that compares the meanings of words for 'language' E.g. in the Indigenous Australian language Mawng that I do research on, the word
<i>ngaralk </i>'language' can also mean 'tongue, word' and other things. This is a relatively common pattern I think. A student is interested in reading work on this topic, if there has been any published, along the lines of the work in the special issue below:</p>
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Volume 26 Issue 2 - Special issue on areal typology of lexico-semantics; Issue Editors: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Antoinette Schapper and Felix Ameka</p>
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Issue of Linguistic Typology</p>
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Cheers,</p>
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