language

/ˈlaŋ-gwij/

Middle English, from Anglo-French langage, from lange, langue tongue, language, from Latin lingua

noun

  1. the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community

  2. audible, articulate, meaningful sound as produced by the action of the vocal organs

  3. a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings

studied the French language

plural noun

  1. the subjects (such as reading, spelling, literature, and composition) that aim at developing the student's comprehension and capacity for use of written and oral language

noun

  1. a mathematical model that analyzes a corpus of text in order to accurately represent the relationships between words; also : software that uses a language model to generate text (such as responses to queries or prompts)

We have tremendous freedom to put words in any order we like. The computer has to have some kind of handle, a language model. It has to figure how likely any particular word is to pop up at any time.