language

• n.言語；話し言葉と書き言葉；表現力

語源はラテン語のlingua（舌）、language（言語）、語源はtongue（舌）、linguist（言語学者）。

language

language: [13] Like English tongue, Latin lingua ‘tongue’ was used figuratively for ‘language’; from it English gets linguist [16] and linguistic [19]. In the Vulgar Latin spoken by the inhabitants of Gaul, the derivative *linguāticum emerged, and this became in due course Old French langage, source of English language. (The u in the English word, which goes back to the end of the 13th century, is due to association with French langue ‘tongue’.)
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language (n.)

late 13c., langage "words, what is said, conversation, talk," from Old French langage (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *linguaticum, from Latin lingua "tongue," also "speech, language" (see lingual). The form with -u- developed in Anglo-French. Meaning "a language" is from c. 1300, also used in Middle English of dialects:

Mercii, tat beet men of myddel Engelond[,] vnderstondet bettre te side langages, norterne and souterne, tan norterne and souterne vnderstondet eiter oter. [John of Trevisa, translation of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]

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In otir inglis was it drawin, And turnid ic haue it til ur awin Language of the nortin lede, Tat can na notir inglis rede. ["Cursor Mundi," early 14c.]

Language barrier attested from 1933.

1. The Ukrainians speak a Slavonic language similar to Russian.

ウクライナ人が話すスラブ語系の言語はロシア語に似ている。

2.The language of Darwin was intelligible to experts and non-experts alike.

ダーウィンの言語は専門家でも非専門家でもわかりやすい。

3.His misunderstanding of language was the primary cause of his other problems.

彼の言語に対する誤解は、他の問題を引き起こす主な原因である。

4.We were forbidden，under pain of imprisonment，to use our native language .

私たちは母国語の使用を禁止され、違反者は刑務所に入れられます。

5.All cheques should be made out to "EF International Language Schools "

すべての小切手の受取人は「インペリアル国際言語学校」でなければならない。