Language (disambiguation) explained

Language is the capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, and a language is any specific example of such a system.

Language may also refer to:

Publications

• Language (journal), a journal of the Linguistic Society of America
• Language (magazine), an avant garde poetry magazine (published 1978–1981)
• Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, a 1921 book by linguist Edward Sapir
• Language: Its Nature, Development, and Origin, a 1922 book by linguist Otto Jespersen
• Language (Bloomfield book), a 1933 book by linguist Leonard Bloomfield
• , an introductory linguistics textbook

Music

• Language (Annie Crummer album), 1992
• Language (The Contortionist album), 2014
• Language (MNEK album), 2018
• "Language" (Dave Dobbyn song), 1994
• "Language" (Porter Robinson song), 2012
• "The Language" (song), a 2013 song by Drake
• "Language", a 1987 song by Suzanne Vega from Solitude Standing
• "Language", a 2019 song by Betty Who from Betty

Other uses

• Bad language, a subset of a language's lexicon considered impolite or offensive
• Juan Language (born 1989), a South African rugby union player

See also

• Artificial language, a language created for a specific purpose
• Formal language in mathematics or other fields, a set of strings of symbols that may be constrained by rules that are specific to it
  • Programming language, a language created for the writing of computer programs
• Natural language, a language used naturally by humans for communication