'Language' in the Bible
This fact became widely known to the people of Jerusalem, so that the place received the name, in their language, of Achel-damach, which means 'The Field of Blood.')
So when this noise was heard, they came crowding together, and were amazed because everyone heard his own language spoken.
How then does each of us hear his own native language spoken by them?
Yet we all alike hear these Galilaeans speaking in our own language about the wonderful things which God has done."
So he sprang up and began to walk about. Then the crowds, seeing what Paul had done, rent the air with their shouts in the Lycaonian language, saying, "The gods have assumed human form and have come down to us."
And this is in harmony with the language of the Prophets, which says:
But upon their opposing him with abusive language, he shook his clothes by way of protest, and said to them, "Your ruin will be upon your own heads. I am not responsible: in future I will go among the Gentiles."