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- Labial–velar consonantConsonant that is doubly articulated at the soft palate and the lips
- Labiodental ejective fricativeThe labiodental ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken lang
- Lajla Mattsson MaggaSouthern Sami teacher, children's writer and lexicographer
- Language acquisition by deaf childrenLanguage acquisition is a natural process in which infants and children develop proficienc
- Language acquisition deviceThe Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research propos
- Language and genderWays men and women use language differently
- Language assessmentEvaluation of a person's language ability
- Language attritionProcess of losing a language
- Language centerSpeech processing areas of the brain
- Language changeModification or development of a language
- Language complexityConcept in linguistics
- Language contactInteraction between different languages
- Language delayLanguage disorder marked by delayed language development
- Language documentationSubfield of linguistics
- Language documentation tools and methodsThe field of language documentation in the modern context involves a complex and ever-evol
- Language education by regionLingual teaching
- Language exchangePartners teaching each other their native language
- Language identificationDetermination of language from a text sample
- Language ideologyConcept of language having or being influenced by ideology
- Language immersionUse of two languages across a variety of educational subjects
- Language interpretationFacilitating of oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages
- Language isolateLanguage that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with other languages
- Language labAudio-visual installation used in language teaching
- Language localisationProduct Management Discipline
- Language LogLinguistics blog
- Language moduleHypothesized brain structure for innate language capabilities
- Language pedagogyMethods of teaching languages
- Language planningDeliberate effort to influence languages or their varieties within a speech community
- Language policyLanguage policy is both an interdisciplinary academic field and implementation of ideas ab
- Language policy in FranceFrench as the sole official language
- Language policy in LatviaArticles 4 and 114 of the Constitution of Latvia form the foundation for language policy i
- Language productionProcess by which people translate thoughts into spoken, written or signed words
- Language proficiencyMeasurement of linguistic ability
- Language revitalizationEffort to promote an endangered language or revive a dead language
- Language secessionismReclassifying a language variety as a distinct language
- Language transferInfluence one language has on the acquisition or intelligibility of another
- Language-based learning disabilityType of learning disability
- Languages of East AsiaThe languages of East Asia belong to several distinct language families, with many common
- Larry SelinkerAmerican linguist
- Laryngeal consonantLaryngeal consonants (a term often used interchangeably with guttural consonants) are cons
- Laryngeal theoryTheory in historical linguistics
- Lateral consonantType of consonant
- Latin conjugationLatin grammatical verb inflections
- Latin grammarGrammar of the Latin language
- Latin indirect speechLatin Speech
- Latin numeralsNames of numbers in Latin
- Latin syntaxPart of Latin grammar
- Latin tensesTense used in the Latin language
- Latin tenses (semantics)Grammar of the Latin language
- Lative caseIn grammar, the lative ( LAY-tiv; abbreviated LAT) is a grammatical case which indicates m
- LauburuThe lauburu (from Basque lau, "four" + buru, "head") is an ancient hooked cross with four
- Law and Corpus LinguisticsAcademic discipline
- Layamon's BrutLayamon's Brut (ca. 1190 – 1215), also known as The Chronicle of Britain, is a Middle Engl
- LechkhumiLechkhumi (Georgian: ლეჩხუმი, Lečxumi) is a historic province in northwestern Georgia whic
- Lect, JuraLect (French pronunciation: ) is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Com
- Leela HazzahLeela Hazzah is an Egyptian conservation biologist who works in Kenya and Tanzania. Hazzah
- Legal translationTranslated text within the field of law
- LegibilityEase with which a reader can decode symbols
- LeísmoLeísmo ("using le") is a dialectal variation in the Spanish language that occurs largely i
- Lemma (morphology)Root word of a set of word forms
- LenitionConsonant sound change
- Leonard BloomfieldAmerican linguist (1887–1949)
- Leptothorax acervorumLeptothorax acervorum is a small brown to yellow ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae. It was f
- Lev ShcherbaRussian and Soviet linguist (1880–1944)
- LexemeUnit of lexical meaning
- LexibankLinguistics database
- Lexical aspectSemantic way in which a verb is structured in relation to time
- Lexical chainA lexical chain is a sequence between two semantically related ordered words in writing. I
- Lexical diffusionTheory of sound changes in linguistics
- Lexical itemWord, word part or word chain
- Lexical semanticsSubfield of linguistic semantics
- Lexical setGroup of words that fall under a single category
- Lexicographic orderGeneralized alphabetical order
- LexicographyArt and science of compiling dictionaries
- LexicologyLinguistic discipline studying words
- LexiconVocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge
- LexifierA lexifier is the language that provides the basis for the majority of a pidgin or creole
- LGBTQ linguisticsStudy of language used by LGBTQ people
- LGBTQ slangSlang used mostly among LGBTQ people
- Liaison (French)Pronunciation of a latent word-final consonant immediately before a following vowel sound
- LibfixType of affix
- Linguistic Atlas of New EnglandThe Linguistic Atlas of New England (LANE), edited by Hans Kurath in collaboration with Mi
- Linguistic categoriesOntology for descriptive linguistics
- Linguistic competenceSystem of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language
- Linguistic demographyStatistical study of languages among all populations
- Linguistic descriptionWork of objectively describing language use
- Linguistic development of GenieCase study
- Linguistic diversity indexMother tongue language diversity
- Linguistic landscapeLanguage on public signs
- Linguistic performanceActual use of language in concrete situations
- Linguistic prescriptionPrescriptive rules of grammar and usage
- Linguistic profilingLinguistic profiling is the practice of identifying the social characteristics of an indiv
- Linguistic purism in EnglishEfforts to reduce foreign terms in English
- Linguistic reconstructionProcesses of understanding how earlier languages were spoken
- Linguistic relativityHypothesis of language influencing thought
- Linguistic Society of AmericaAmerican learned society
- Linguistic validationLinguistic validation is the process of investigating the reliability, conceptual equivale
- Linguistics wars20th-century dispute among American linguists
- Liquid consonantClass of speech sounds
- Lise MennAmerican linguist (Psycholinguistics)
- Literary devicePurposeful use of language
- Literary languageForm of a language used in written literature
- LitotesIronic figure of speech
- Loaded languageRhetoric used to influence an audience
- LoanwordWord borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language
- Logic translationTranslation of a text into a logical system
- Logical form (linguistics)Variant of a linguistic expression
- LoglanLoglan is a logical constructed language originally designed for linguistic research, part
- Longest wordsLongest words in various languages
- Lou Henry HooverFirst Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
- Louis HjelmslevDanish linguist (1899–1965)
- LRE MapFreely accessible large database
- Luobohe Miao languageLuobohe Miao (罗泊河 Luóbóhé Miao, Luobo River Miao, Luopohe Hmong; Xijia Miao 西家苗), also kno
- Lyle CampbellAmerican scholar and linguist (born 1942)