"a distinct language" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about a language that is different from other languages. For example, "Chinese is a distinct language compared to English."
The grammatical structure, lyrical cadences, intonations, and pronunciations of Creole make it a distinct language.
They have a distinct language, and we can't understand a word of it.
Each of these Popoluca groups highland (or Sierra), Oluta, Sayula, and Texistepec speaks a distinct language.
Unlike Romanians or Hungarians, Serbs do not have a distinct language to set them apart from their neighbours.
Under the Kulashekhara dynasty (c. 800 1102), Malayalam emerged as a distinct language, and Hinduism became prominent.
Aromanian is used and codified as a distinct language in the Republic of Macedonia and in Albania.
In the mountain fringes of the country, especially in the northeast, spoken dialects are often sufficiently different from one valley to the next to merit classifying each as a truly distinct language.
A modeling language is defined using a metamodel and contains a number of distinct language concepts, represented by metaclasses.
In the end, the judge ruled that Krio, while similar to English "is a separate and distinct language that cannot be readily understood without an interpreter".
Regarding cross-language linking and identifiers, developers encountered cross-language links in a total of 152 distinct language pairs with an average of 3 link pairs per project.
To summarize our answer to RQ3: Developers encountered cross-language links in a total of 152 distinct language pairs with an average of 3 link pairs per project.
