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English Thesaurus

1. a language that is to be translated into another language (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	language, linguistic communication,
definition	:	a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	application-oriented language, problem-oriented language,
definition	:	a language whose statements resemble terminology of the user (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	command language, query language, search language,
definition	:	a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed (noun.communication)