# Natural language ## Overview > [!summary]- Summary > wiki:: [Natural language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20language) > In neuropsychology, linguistics, and philosophy of language, a **Natural language** or ordinary language is any language that occurs naturally in a human community by a process of use, repetition, and change without conscious planning or premeditation. It can take different forms, namely either a spoken language or a sign language. Natural languages are distinguished from constructed and formal languages such as those used to program computers or to study logic.