The study of ancient scripts reveals how language evolves over centuries, reflecting cultural exchanges among distant civilizations.
对古代文字的研究揭示了语言如何随着几个世纪演变，反映出遥远文明之间的文化交流。
In the 1950s, computer pioneer Grace Hopper insisted that programming languages should resemble English rather than strings of numbers.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
A linguist studying an endangered language found that fluent speakers under the age of 40 could name only about half as many traditional plant species in the language as fluent speakers over 60, even though both groups had grown up in the same rural region.
From a Inferences question · Information and Ideas
A student has taken the following notes about a language phenomenon:
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
Which choice best defines “language”?
C — A system of communication used by a particular country or community. “language” means a system of communication used by a particular country or community.
Which word means “a system of communication used by a particular country or community”?
D — language. “language” means a system of communication used by a particular country or community.
language — a system of communication used by a particular country or community. In Chinese: 语言.
language is pronounced /ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/.
The study of ancient scripts reveals how language evolves over centuries, reflecting cultural exchanges among distant civilizations. (对古代文字的研究揭示了语言如何随着几个世纪演变，反映出遥远文明之间的文化交流。)
tongue, speech, dialect — all close in meaning to language (a system of communication used by a particular country or community).
Yes. language is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.