Editing Natural language (section)

== Defining natural language ==
Natural language can be broadly defined as different from

* artificial and [[constructed language]]s, e.g. [[computer programming language]]s
* constructed [[international auxiliary language]]s
* non-human [[Biocommunication (science)|communication systems in nature]] such as [[whale vocalization|whale and other marine mammal vocalization]]s or [[honey bee]]s' [[waggle dance]].<ref name="animalwise">{{cite web |last1=Norris |first1=Paul F |title=The Honeybee Waggle Dance – Is it a Language? |url=https://animalwise.org/2011/08/25/the-honeybee-waggle-dance-%E2%80%93-is-it-a-language/ |website=AnimalWise |access-date=10 April 2019 |date=25 August 2011 |archive-date=20 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820220552/https://animalwise.org/2011/08/25/the-honeybee-waggle-dance-%e2%80%93-is-it-a-language/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

All [[variety (linguistics)|varieties]] of [[world language]]s are natural languages, including those that are associated with [[linguistic prescriptivism]] or [[language regulation]]. ([[Nonstandard dialect]]s can be viewed as a [[wild type]] in comparison with [[standard language]]s.) An [[official language]] with a regulating academy such as [[Standard French]], overseen by the {{Lang|fr|[[Académie Française]]|italic=no}}, is classified as a natural language (e.g. in the field of [[natural language processing]]), as its prescriptive aspects do not make it constructed enough to be a constructed language or controlled enough to be a [[controlled natural language]].