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A natural language or ordinary language is a language that occurs organically in a human community by a process of use, repetition, and change and in forms such as written, spoken and signed. Categorization as natural includes languages associated with linguistic prescriptivism or language regulation, but excludes constructed and formal languages such as those used for computer programming and logic.[1] Nonstandard dialects can be viewed as a wild type in comparison with standard languages. An official language with a regulating academy such as Standard French, overseen by the Académie Française, is classified as a natural language (e.g. in the field of natural language processing), as its prescriptive aspects do not make it constructed enough to be a constructed language or controlled enough to be a controlled natural language.
Categorization as natural excludes:
- Artificial and constructed languages
- Constructed international auxiliary languages
- Non-human communication systems in nature such as whale and other marine mammal vocalizations or honey bees' waggle dance.[2]
- ^ Lyons, John (1991). Natural Language and Universal Grammar. Cambridge University Press. pp. 68–70. ISBN 978-0521246965.
- ^ Norris, Paul F. (25 August 2011). "The Honeybee Waggle Dance – Is it a Language?". AnimalWise. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2019.