Definition:Natural Language

Definition

A natural language is one of the conventional, everyday languages in which people usually communicate.

Although there are many natural languages in the world, we are not generally going to distinguish between them, merely lumping them all into the one concept.

When natural language is referred to on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$, it will usually mean English.

Also known as

The term common parlance is sometimes used to emphasise the everyday colloquial aspects of natural language.

Also see

• Definition:Formal Language

Sources

• 1973: Irving M. Copi: Symbolic Logic (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $1$ Introduction: Logic and Language: $1.4$: Symbolic Logic