language

英 ['l??gw?d?] 美['l??ɡw?d?]

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復數:?languages;

language 語言

來自拉丁語lingua,舌頭，語言，詞源同tongue,linguist.

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]

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.: 烏克蘭人所說的那種斯拉夫語系的語言類似于俄語。

2. The language of Darwin was intelligible to experts and non-experts alike.: 達爾文的語言無論對專家還是非專業人士而言都明白易懂。

3. His misunderstanding of language was the primary cause of his other problems.: 他對語言的誤解是引起其他問題的主要原因。

4. We were forbidden, under pain of imprisonment, to use our native language.: 我們被禁止使用母語，違者將被關進監獄。

5. All cheques should be made out to "EF International Language Schools": 所有支票的收款人都應是“英孚國際語言學校”。