🌏 Region(s): Honshu (Standard)
げんご【言語】 : gengo | define meaning
gengo
Pronunciation: [ɡeŋ̍ɡo]
Definition
Noun
- Language; speech
- げんごりょくけんてい【言語力検定】
gengo ryoku kentei
"Language proficiency certification" - じんごうげんご【人工言語】
jingou gengo
"Artificial language"
- げんごりょくけんてい【言語力検定】
- (As a modifier) Language; linguistic; verbal
- げんごちず【言語地図】
gengo chizu
"Linguistic map"
- げんごちず【言語地図】
- (By conflation with 諺語) Word; term; colloquialism; slang; saying
Etymology
Historical variants: げんぎょ gengyo and ごんご gongo. Ultimately from the Chinese compound 【言語・言语】 "speech+language" (cf. Mandarin yányǔ "spoken language, speech"; Cantonese jin4 jyu5; Hakka ngièn-ngî; Min Nan giân-gí and giân-gú; Korean 언어 eoneo "language"; Dungan gānyǔ "language"; and Vietnamese ngôn ngữ "language"). From Middle Chinese *ngiæn ngiǔ. No known variant of this term occurs in Ryukyuan. Related to the Chinese compound 【語言・语言】 "language+speech" (cf. Mandarin yǔyán "language"; Hakka ngî-ngièn; Min Nan gí-giân and gú-giân; Min Dong ngṳ̄-ngiòng).
Notes
Derived terms:
げんごがく【言語学】 gengogaku "linguistics"
げんごがくしゃ【言語学者】 gengogakusha "linguist"
意味：げんご【言語】、ことば【言葉】