Laterne,
'Language' (old French) comes from the Latin word "lingua" meaning tongue (язык).
'Tongue' comes from Old German "tunge" (zunge) meaning tongue (язык).
Language refers to structured communication, usually but not always spoken or written.
-the English language, a foreign language, computer language, written language, spoken language, bad language (swearing).
-We speak the same language.
What's your native language?
body language
sign language
the language of love
Tongue refers to a particular spoken language (often a dialect) or a style of speaking. It is more poetic and used in a figurative sense for the "faculty of speech".
-The Dakota tongue, a foreign tongue, a native tongue, my mother tongue
He has a vicious tongue.
Please speak with a civil tongue.
I talk with the tongues of angels and men.
The white man speaks with forked tongue!