Human language
1. A natural language is one that evolved along with a culture
of human native speakers who use the language for general-purpose communication.
Languages like English, American Sign Language and Japanese
are natural languages, while languages like Esperanto are called
constructed languages, having been deliberately created for a specific purpose.
Constructed languages can still have "native" speakers, if children learn it at a
young age from parents who have learned the language; there are estimated to be
200-2000 native speakers of Esperanto, for example.
2. Sometimes any language used by human beings (be it naturally evolved like English,
or constructed like Esperanto) is considered a "natural" language, while programming languages
and data representation languages for computers are classed as artificial.
This usage can be seen in the term natural language processing.
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