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- Macaronic languageText using a mixture of languages
- MadamPolite form of address for women
- Mahir DomiAlbanian linguist, professor, and academic
- Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic areaGeolinguistic region of areal features
- MalapropismMisuse of a word
- Malawian EnglishDialect of English commonly used in Malawi
- Mama and papaIn linguistics, a commonly seen sequence of sounds meaning "mother" and "father"
- Manner of articulationConfiguration and interaction of the articulators when making a speech sound
- Manual babblingChildren babbling in sign language
- Manually coded EnglishManually Coded English (MCE) is an umbrella term referring to a number of invented manual
- Margaret LangdonMargaret Langdon (c. 1926 in Louvain, Belgium – October 25, 2005) was a US linguist who st
- Mariapaola D'ImperioMariapaola D’Imperio is an Italian linguist known for her works on phonetics, prosody and
- Mark SteedmanMark Jerome Steedman, (born 18 September 1946) is a computational linguist and cognitive s
- Marked nominative alignmentLanguages which mark the nominative case and do not mark the accusative
- MarkednessState of standing out as unusual
- Marmaduke PickthallMuhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (born Marmaduke William Pickthall; 7 April 1875 – 19 May 1936
- Mary HaasAmerican linguist (1910–1996)
- Mass nounNoun whose quantity is treated as an undifferentiated unit
- Mathematical linguisticsBranch of applied mathematics
- Matica srpskaSerbian cultural institution
- Matrena VakhrushevaMansi linguist and poet
- Max VasmerRussian-German linguist (1886–1962)
- Meaning–text theoryTheoretical linguistic framework
- Measure wordWords that measure quantities
- Media linguisticsMedia linguistics is the linguistic study of language use in the media. It studies the fun
- Medial pterygoid nerveThe medial pterygoid nerve (nerve to medial pterygoid, or internal pterygoid nerve) is a n
- Mediated stylisticsMediated stylistics or media stylistics is a new and still emerging approach to the analys
- Medium of instructionLanguage used in teaching
- Meillet's principleReliability metric in linguistics
- Melville J. HerskovitsMelville Jean Herskovits (September 10, 1895 – February 25, 1963) was an American anthropo
- MereologyStudy of parts and the wholes they form
- MereotopologyIn formal ontology, a branch of metaphysics, and in ontological computer science, mereotop
- Merge (linguistics)Basic operation in the Minimalist Program
- MerismSynecdochic figure of speech
- Merrill SwainMerrill Swain is a Canadian applied linguist whose research has focused on second language
- MessageDiscrete unit of communication
- MetalepsisFigure of speech
- Metaphorical code-switchingMetaphorical code-switching refers to the tendency in a bilingual or multilingual communit
- MetonymyFigure of speech
- Meyer v. Nebraska1923 United States Supreme Court case
- Michael E. KraussAmerican linguist (1934–2019)
- Mid back rounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨o̞⟩ or ⟨ɔ̝⟩ in IPA
- Mid back unrounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨ɤ̞⟩ or ⟨ʌ̝⟩ in IPA
- Mid central vowelVowel sound represented by the schwa, ⟨ə⟩
- Mid front rounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨ø̞⟩ or ⟨œ̝⟩ in IPA
- Mid front unrounded vowelVowel sound represented by ⟨e̞⟩ or ⟨ɛ̝⟩ in IPA
- Mid vowelA mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken la
- Milena HübschmannováCzech linguist and Romani scholar
- Milena JelinekMilena Jelinek (Czech: Milena Jelínková, née Tobolová; August 19, 1935 – April 15, 2020) w
- Minimalist grammarMinimalist grammars are a class of formal grammars that aim to provide a more rigorous, us
- Minimalist programLinguistic research program proposed by Noam Chomsky
- Minor syllableReduced syllable followed by a full tonic or stressed syllable
- Minority languageLanguage spoken by a minority of the population of a territory
- MirativityGrammatical category which conveys surprise
- MispronunciationIncorrect or inaccurate pronunciation of a word
- Mobile translationElectronic device or software application that provides audio translation
- Mobile-assisted language learningLanguage learning technique
- Mock SpanishSpanish-inspired phrases used by American English speakers
- Modal operatorA modal connective (or modal operator) is a logical connective for modal logic. It is an o
- Modal verbType of verb, such as "might", that is used to indicate modality
- Modal voiceVocal register associated with speech and singing
- Modality (semantics)Phenomenon whereby language is used to discuss possible situations
- Modality (semiotics)In semiotics, a modality is a particular way in which information is to be encoded for pre
- Models of communicationSimplified representations of communication
- Mofu-Gudur languageMofu-Gudur, or South Mofu, is a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are
- Moira YipBritish-American linguist (born 1949)
- Moloko languageMoloko (Məlokwo) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.
- Mona BakerProfessor of translation studies
- Mongolic languagesLanguage family of Eurasia
- MonologueSpeech presented by a single character
- MonophthongizationMonophthongization is a sound change by which a diphthong becomes a monophthong, a type of
- MonosemyMonosemy means 'one-meaning' and is a methodology primarily for lexical semantic analysis,
- Montague grammarApproach to natural language semantics
- Montenegrin languageStandard variety of Serbo-Croatian
- Morphological derivationForming a new word on the basis of an existing one
- Morphological typologyWay of classifying the world's languages
- Morphosyntactic alignmentGrammatical relationship between arguments
- Morris SwadeshAmerican linguist (1909–1967)
- Moscow School of Comparative LinguisticsThe Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics (also called the Nostratic School) is a schoo
- Motor theory of speech perceptionHypothesis of spoken word identification
- MtiuletiMtiuleti (Georgian: მთიულეთი; literally, "the land of mountains") is a historical province
- Multimedia translationTranslation of multimodal and multimedial texts
- Murray Barnson EmeneauCanadian-American linguist (1904–2005)
- Muscogee languageIndigenous American language
- Mutual intelligibilityCloseness of linguistic varieties