Random Linguistics Definitions Beginning with the Letter "M"

mand An utterance by which a speaker tries to get an addressee to do something: thus a command, demand, request, etc.

Mande Family of languages in West Africa, centred on the west of Guinea and adjoining parts of Mali, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Bambara, Maninka, and Dyula are closely related members spoken in the north of this area.

modal voice Normal vibration of the vocal chords in the production of speech, as opposed e.g. to falsetto.

Definitions from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, Second edition, 2007
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