PsychLing Mental Language Inventory

A comprehensive multi-language catalog of words and phrases related to psychological events: thinking, feeling, emotion, and perception.

About PsychLing Mental Language Inventory (MLI)

The PsychLing MLI from Psycholinguistics.org, or Mental Language Inventory, provides a comprehensive inventory of words and phrases related to mental activity and other psychological processes. All entries are related to mental language, or psychological processes like thinking, feeling, perception, and sensation. The entries are conveniently organized by Language Family, Language, Script Family, Script, and other factors.

We are actively working on adding new entries on a regular basis.

New MLI entries

List of languages: Family › A–Z

Language
Status
Entries
Afro-Asiatic (Family)
Akkadian
Ancient
3
Ancient Aramaic
Ancient
3
Ancient Egyptian
Ancient
5
Ancient Hebrew
Historic
1
Eblaite
Ancient
1
Indo-European (Family)
Ancient Greek
Historic
3
English
Living
7
French
Living
1
German
Living
1
Latin
Ancient
2
Modern Greek
Living
1
Old English
Historic
2
Sanskrit
Ancient
1
Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian
Living
3
Spanish
Living
1
Japonic (Family)
Japanese
Living
1
Koreanic (Family)
Korean
Living
1
Sino-Tibetan (Family)
Mandarin Chinese
Living
1
Unclassified (Family)
Basque
Living
1
Sumerian
Ancient
3

Citation

MLA 8

PsychLing Contributors. "Mental Language Inventory." PsychLing, OMNIKA Foundation, 24 Jul. 2023, psylng.org/mli. Accessed 2 May. 2024.

APA 6

PsychLing (2023, July 24). Mental Language Inventory. Retrieved from https://psylng.org/mli

CMS 16

PsychLing Contributors. "Mental Language Inventory." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created July 24, 2023. Modified September 17, 2023. Accessed May 2, 2024. https://psylng.org/mli.

Bibliography

Glottolog

Hammarström, Harald, Robert Forkel, Martin Haspelmath, and Sebastian Bank. "Glottolog: A Database of Languages." Leipzig, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Created 2011. Accessed July 28, 2023. https://glottolog.org. [Visit]

IDS

Key, Mary R., and Bernard Comrie, eds. "IDS: The Intercontinental Dictionary Series." Leipzig, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Created 2013. Accessed August 28, 2023. https://ids.clld.org. [Visit]

Allo

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Allo: A Modern Dictionary for Dead Ancient Languages." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created March 15, 2019. Accessed July 28, 2023. https://ancientlanguages.org. [Visit]

OMNIKA

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "OMNIKA: Digital Mythology Library." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created January 21, 2019. Accessed July 28, 2023. https://omnika.org. [Visit]

ISO 639-3

SIL International Contributors. "ISO 639-3 Registration Authority: International Standard for Language Codes." Dallas, TX: SIL International. Accessed July 28, 2023. https://iso639-3.sil.org. [Visit]

ScriptSource

SIL International Contributors. "ScriptSource: Index of Languages and Writing Systems." Dallas, TX: SIL International. Created June 11, 2011. Accessed July 28, 2023. https://scriptsource.org. [Visit]

PsychLing Glossary

Language is a term in Linguistics that means structured human communication like speech, writing, or gestures.

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Language Family is a term in Historical Linguistics that means a collection of languages derived from a common ancestor.

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Script is a term in Grammatology that means a collection of symbols used to transcribe human speech into writing.

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PsychLing Glossary

Script Family is a term in Grammatology that means a collection of scripts grouped according to one or more factors.

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