Leid

For ither uisses, see Leid (disambiguation)

The concept o leid (cried langage forby) can be exponed in monie weys, fur 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 langage.

Some fowk says that ainimals haes leids or can be teached leids; ithers dinna 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.

See an aw

• Dialect
• Leet o leids
• Mither tongue
• Orthography
• Philology an Historical lingueistics
• Filosofie o leid
• Phonology
• Psycholingueistics
• Saicont leid
• Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
• Semantics
• Phono-semantic matching