Langue de Shakespeare, langue de Molière... others?

Factual Questions
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I’ve lately become enamoured of a French expression “la langue de …” followed by the name of a famous author, to denote a particular language. Are there other authors who are the proverbial avatars of various other languages? Here are the ones I’ve collected so far:

la langue de Molière: French.
la langue de Shakespeare: English.
la langue de Goethe: German.
la langue de Cervantes: Spanish.

These are the only ones I’ve heard or read in actual usage. I’m not interested in possible ones, but only ones that are in actual usage. Can you help?

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la langue de Kenny: Mrrglblvh

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A Google search turns up a lot of references to la langue de Dante and quite a few references to la langue de Cicéron. The trouble is that I can’t tell if they’re referring to the Italian and Latin languages per se or to those authors’ particular styles when writing in those languages.

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I’ve heard Latin referred to in English as “the language of Cicero,” so that may be a reference to Latin itself, as a whole.

I’ve also heard “la langue de Villon,” though I think perhaps François Villon (one of my favorite poets) isn’t as well known in the English speaking world as Molière.
Dragonblink the Language Major

5

Scots: The language of Robbie Burns.

6

Esperanto: the language of [Julio] Baghy? :slight_smile:

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Yes they do refer to Italian and Latin. Another addition is la langue d’Homère, for Classic Greek.

8

Binary, the language of moisture vaporators.

9

La lingvo de Zamenhof, kompreneble! (A usage which I saw sanctified yesterday in Le Devoir.)

10

<frapas kapon>

Mi pensis pri verkistoju, kiuj enesperanta verkadis, sed forgesis, ke Zamenhof mem tradukis kaj kreis multajn aferojn…

I was thinking of authors who wrote in Esperanto, but forgot that Zamenhof created and translated much himself… :slight_smile:

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la langue de Homer: D’oh! [Annoyed grunt.]