Forms of languages & specialist dialects
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition.
- acrolect
- argot
- basilect
- cant
- colloquialism
- conlang
- creole
- dead language
- functional
- Hebraic
- heritage language
- jargon
- journalese
- legalese
- lingo
- lingua franca
- metalanguage
- MFL
- middle
- newspeak
- non-standard
- officialese
- old
- oral
- original
- parlance
- patois
- pidgin
- plain English
- Polari
- psychobabble
- rhyming slang
- shibboleth
- slang
- slangy
- speak
- standard
- telegramese
- tongue
- verbal
- verbally
- vernacular