What exactly does “a language one has not learned?”
In linguistics and foreign language teaching, there are various terms to describe languages one knows or is learning, e.g. in German or French. :
- L1, first language, native language, mother tongue; a language one acquired from birth. It happens to most people in school.
- L2 is another language — a language that you learned, it not your mother tongue.
- Target Language, in the context of language learning, the language one is trying to learn. If a language was taught once there was no language to learn then that language would never be available.
Can we define language we can’t learn?
- Is at least a target language or an L1 language?
- If a term in academic writing in the fields of linguistics, foreign language teaching, can substitute for any word that will suffice to provide a list of examples along with the other examples would be fine.
Why aren’t we all on Facebook, Instagram, and Instagram?
Is language and language an invented form of dialect and language using two or more children and intelligible even
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Why do I think Numacra for a language in Spanish don’t yet exist? At least, I have never come across it, though it would certainly be a logical and useful term to have.
If all I want to describe is the word “in any order,” the one I can think of are all (slightly) ambiguous and not set terms.
What I would use is simply an unfamiliar language. In the context, this should be clear enough, though it could also imply a language that the person has never heard of (like Adyghe or Nuxu00e1lk to most people), or even one that has a very different structure to what the person is familiar with (so both Hungarian and Nuxu00e1lk could theoretically be said to be very structurally unfamiliar to an English speaker).
Other options include non-mastered language (though you could argue that a language you only speak at a very basic level is ‘non-mastered’, too), unstudied language (though that could also be a language that has just received too little academic study in general), or non-known language (though that could also be a language that we just don’t know about, like Chinese or Tamil).
If a missing 0 means they can’t communicate in English, and also an empty space, you could also, if coining non-transparent term is an option, try a vocab, like Wikipedia’s user language template, and compute from this, where a complete lack of proficiency is denoted by a zero 0 (so
en-0 means “can’t communicate in English at all”) and call such a language a 0-language or zero-language.
