natural language

noun

1

: a language that is the native speech of a people (as English, Tamil, Samoan) compare artificial language

2

: the language of ordinary speaking and writing

fundamental problems of artificial intelligence—teaching computers to understand natural languages, such as English

—Roger Draper

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