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Language - The Relational

If being implies language, language is wherever there is interaction — far beyond human communication, into all relational activity. Languages come in categories, each with its own vocabulary and grammar. None self-founding. All interrelational. All with equal standing in potential.

What is a language? — the structural definition SPLectrum works from.

Each of the kinds below is a language in that structural sense. The content varies by language; the relational structure is the common ground this section investigates.

• Natural languages — human language, ambiguity, context, language games.
• Formal languages — mathematical, logical, type theory, formal systems.
• Software languages — taxonomy, relation to formal language theory.
• Domain-specific languages — SPLectrum’s reading of DSLs, what the engineering record demonstrates, where the thinking is heading.