COSTANOAN LANGUAGE Synonyms

• a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

• (language) communication by word of mouth

• the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number

• the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication

• the mental faculty or power of vocal communication

• a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

• a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

• a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

• any long thin projection that is transient

• a manner of speaking

• a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

• the tongue of certain animals used as meat

• the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot

• metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

• articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

• lick or explore with the tongue

• a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

• the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

• a member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay

• a Penutian language spoken by the Costanoan