American Language

American language may refer to:

  • American English, the English language as spoken in the United States
  • Generically, one of the many indigenous languages of the Americas
  • The American Language, a dictionary about American English.

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or language:

    “Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.”
    —William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925)

    “We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be “revolutionary” but not transformative.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)