jargon

specialized language usage used in a particular field, with little or different wider usage
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jargon

Summary

jargon is a register[1]. jargon draws 316 Wikipedia views per month (register category, ranking #7 of 20).[2]

Key Facts

  • jargon's instance of is recorded as register[3].
  • jargon's GND ID is recorded as 4162714-3[4].
  • jargon's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh00005945[5].
  • jargon's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12124333s[6].
  • jargon's subclass of is recorded as Q8380731[7].
  • jargon's subclass of is recorded as usage[8].
  • jargon's has use is recorded as technical communication[9].
  • jargon's Commons category is recorded as Terminology[10].
  • jargon's said to be the same as is recorded as professiolect[11].
  • jargon's said to be the same as is recorded as special language[12].
  • jargon's opposite of is recorded as plain language[13].
  • jargon's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 5026[14].
  • jargon's has part is recorded as jargon term[15].
  • jargon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0d5rw[16].
  • jargon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Jargon[17].
  • jargon's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300411981[18].
  • jargon's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19].
  • jargon's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[20].
  • jargon's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[21].
  • jargon's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000145609[22].
  • jargon's partially coincident with is recorded as argot[23].
  • jargon's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/jargon-linguistics[24].
  • jargon's BBC Things ID is recorded as 7248f202-9065-4be3-8343-026e5e7ffc28[25].
  • jargon's different from is recorded as Project:Glossary[26].
  • jargon's different from is recorded as Wiktionary field category[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for jargon include Bargoens[28], a cant[29], in Netherlands[30].

Why It Matters

jargon draws 316 Wikipedia views per month (register category, ranking #7 of 20).[2] jargon has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] jargon is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for jargon include Bargoens[28], a cant[29], in Netherlands[30].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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