language
单词辨析：
普通用词，常指某一国家或地区的语言或文字，也可指某种类型的语言。
literary/poetic language
文学/诗歌语言
legal/medical language
法律/医学术语
Chinese is my native language.
汉语是我的母语。
What languages can you speak?
你会说什么语言？
尤指外语。
I'd like to visit Germany, but I don't speak the lingo.
我想去德国游览，但我不会说德语。
If you live abroad, it helps to know the local lingo.
住在国外，学一点当地的语言自有好处。
指口语或正式的讲话，作后者解时常后接介词 on/about。
Most people have a smaller vocabulary in speech than in writing.
多数人口语的词汇量比书面语少。
She gave the keynote speech.
她作了主题发言。
指某种语言或方言。
French is her mother tongue.
法语是她的母语。
Those articles were written in tongues that I could not read.
那些文章是用我看不懂的方言写的。
相关例句：
Mr Harris has not been afraid to use language that many in his party despise.
哈里斯先生素来不怕使用为许多党内人士所不齿的言辞。
All Singaporeans have to pass exams in the official language of their ethnic group as well as English.
所有新加坡人都必须通过他们自己民族的官方语言及英语的考试。
She spoke not only her native language, Swedish, but also English and French
她不仅讲自己的母语瑞典语，还讲英语和法语。
Students examined how children acquire language
学生们仔细研究儿童如何习得语言。
It is one of the most original works of imagination in the language.
这是用该语言写成的最具独创性和想象力的作品之一。
They were using uncommonly flowery language.
他们使用了极其华丽的词藻。