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An example use of language in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… where we don't have language for a lot …”
meanings of language
noun:
A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
Manner of expression.
The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
Profanity.
A computer language; a machine language.
A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
The ability to communicate using words.
The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
verb:
To communicate by language; to express in language.
language frequency in english - A2 level of CEFR
the word language occurs in english on average 99.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics language can be related to
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that language can be often used in the following areas: