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Formal Language

• Definition: A communication system, such as one of the many systems of logical notation or most computer languages, that has both semantic and syntactic rules that encodes ideas with symbols that represent particular meanings, but that could never be the native language of a human.

  Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson