Indo-European vs natural language

natural language vs Indo-European

Indo-European and natural language both are nouns.

Indo-European is an adjective but natural language is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Indo-European	Yes	Yes	No	No
natural language	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, natural language is a hypernym of Indo-European; that is, natural language is a word with a broader meaning than Indo-European:

Indo-European: the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
natural language: a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

Other hypernyms of Indo-European include tongue.

Indo-European (noun)	natural language (noun)
the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia	a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European

Indo-European (adjective)	natural language (adjective)
of or relating to the former Indo-European people
of or relating to the Indo-European language family

Difference between Indo-European and natural language

Words related to "natural language"

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