The phrase "a lack of language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is an absence or deficiency of language skills or communication abilities.
Example: "The child's development was concerning due to a lack of language, making it difficult for them to express their needs."
Alternatives: "a deficiency in language" or "an absence of language".
But the UK is being held back by a lack of language skills, crucial to doing business abroad.
One is a lack of language skills -- an echo of the war in Southeast Asia, when few in government spoke Vietnamese or Cambodian.
A recent survey by accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers reveals a lack of language skills is the major barrier to job mobility in Europe.
Zainab Malik, the author of the Broadening Horizons research based on a survey of almost 3,000 UK students, said the top perceived barriers to study abroad for UK students were costs and a lack of language skills.
High attrition and academic underperformance have been highlighted among students who speak English as an additional language (EAL) in higher education, and a lack of language skills is often cited as a key explanatory factor.
"You start with a lack of language in the Constitution and then add to it that the impeachment articles appear not to have been debated or discussed either in the 1818 Constitutional Convention or the 1965 Constitutional Convention," Mr. Macgill said.
A lack of languages can get companies in legal trouble too, she says: "Businesses can fall foul of all sorts of regulatory issues and cultural misunderstandings". A British Chambers of Commerce survey, published this year, backs up Foreman-Peck's claim of "a substantial negative effect on exports that must be attributed to language complacency".
Although this was interpreted as a lack of language-related neural activity caused by the stroke, an alternative explanation is that the absence of BOLD signal was the result of altered cerebral haemodynamics rather than a decline in neural activity per se.
Owing to a lack of Myanmar language ability, participants who do not speak or read the Myanmar language may have had difficulty in accessing HIV testing services.
Under the stiff carapace is a hollowness, a lack of empathy, language or political imagination.
