linguistic

linguistic
    adj 1: consisting of or related to language; "linguistic
           behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity"
           [syn: {linguistic}, {lingual}] [ant: {nonlinguistic}]
    2: of or relating to the scientific study of language;
       "linguistic theory"
    

Linguistic \Lin*guis"tic\ (l[i^][ng]*gw[i^]s"t[i^]k),
Linguistical \Lin*guis"tic*al\ (l[i^][ng]*gw[i^]s"t[i^]*kal), a.
   [Cf. F. linguistique.]
   Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to
   the affinities of languages.
   [1913 Webster]
    

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "linguistic":
      answering, articulated, communicating, communicational,
      communional, conversational, descriptive, enunciated,
      glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, interacting,
      interactional, interactive, intercommunicational,
      intercommunicative, intercommunional, interresponsive,
      interrogative, interrogatory, lexicographic, lexicological,
      lexicostatistical, lingual, metalinguistic, morphological,
      morphophonemic, nuncupative, oral, parol, philological, phonemic,
      phonetic, phonological, pronounced, psycholinguistic, questioning,
      responsive, said, semantic, sounded, speech, spoken, structural,
      syntactic, telepathic, transmissional, unwritten, uttered, verbal,
      viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful