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:

    “There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”
    —Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)