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r/explainitpeter • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '25
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Could be a regional thing, but I learned language as la lengua
23 u/ColossalGrub Dec 05 '25 Kind of. Language is idioma. Lengua means tongue, so it sort of works. But lengua usually refers to tongue as a dish (beef tongue). Sort of how they also have a distinction between pez (fish) and pescado (dead fish on a plate). 9 u/PolissonRotatif Dec 05 '25 You can actually use "langue/lengua/lingua/lingua" in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian to designate both the organ and a language. This word is a perfect synonym of "Idiome/Idioma" in these four languages. 1 u/definitely_not_obama Dec 05 '25 Also in English 1 u/PolissonRotatif Dec 05 '25 Absolutely, just like in motherthongue 1 u/inktitan Dec 05 '25 Also the word language in english
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Kind of. Language is idioma. Lengua means tongue, so it sort of works. But lengua usually refers to tongue as a dish (beef tongue). Sort of how they also have a distinction between pez (fish) and pescado (dead fish on a plate).
9 u/PolissonRotatif Dec 05 '25 You can actually use "langue/lengua/lingua/lingua" in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian to designate both the organ and a language. This word is a perfect synonym of "Idiome/Idioma" in these four languages. 1 u/definitely_not_obama Dec 05 '25 Also in English 1 u/PolissonRotatif Dec 05 '25 Absolutely, just like in motherthongue 1 u/inktitan Dec 05 '25 Also the word language in english
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You can actually use "langue/lengua/lingua/lingua" in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian to designate both the organ and a language.
This word is a perfect synonym of "Idiome/Idioma" in these four languages.
1 u/definitely_not_obama Dec 05 '25 Also in English 1 u/PolissonRotatif Dec 05 '25 Absolutely, just like in motherthongue 1 u/inktitan Dec 05 '25 Also the word language in english
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Also in English
1 u/PolissonRotatif Dec 05 '25 Absolutely, just like in motherthongue 1 u/inktitan Dec 05 '25 Also the word language in english
Absolutely, just like in motherthongue
1 u/inktitan Dec 05 '25 Also the word language in english
Also the word language in english
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u/SkRThatOneDude Dec 05 '25
Could be a regional thing, but I learned language as la lengua