A metalanguage is a formal language used to create a "lower level" language. A metalanguage consists of the rules and conventions to be used when the lower-level language is created. SGML is the metalanguage of both HTML and XML.
a language that can be used to describe languages
a language in which we talk about some other language
a language used to describe another language
A set of rules that formally describes the syntax of a markup scheme. SGML is an example of a metalanguage, or in other words, it is a set of rules for establishing markup languages.
a language used to describe other languages. SGML and XML are examples of metalanguages.
A language to describe other languages. SGML is the metalanguage that is used to define HTML. Terms such as verb, noun, adjective are all metalanguage terms used to describe English and other human languages.
a language used to specify other languages.
A language that describes other markup languages. XML is a metalanguage for describing other XML vocabularies.
A formal language like SGML that is used to describe other languages.
The language we decide to talk, e.g. English.
In logic and linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to make statements about other languages (object languages). Formal syntactic models for the description of grammar, e.g. generative grammar, are a type of metalanguage. More broadly, it can refer to any terminology or language used to discuss language itself —a written grammar, for example, or a discussion about language use.