The phrase "a language based on" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a programming language, dialect, or any form of communication that derives its structure or vocabulary from another language.
Example: "Python is a language based on the principles of readability and simplicity."
Alternatives: "a language derived from" or "a language influenced by".
They spoke Romani, a language based on Sanskrit.
"The concept was that the whole place was part of a mythical evil conglomerate from the 1970's, something that John DeLorean might have run, and so the artist Ryan McGinness, who is fascinated by corporate logos, designed a language based on the human pictograms you see in airports".
XBRL is a language based on XML for the electronic communication of business information.
In this paper, we use a language based on deontic logic to specify security policies that include obligations with deadline.
The properties that can be monitored by EVEREST are expressed in a language based on Event Calculus [38], called EC-Assertion.
In essence, OWL is a language based on description logics (DLs) [14], which are a family of formal languages suitable for representing and reasoning about terminological knowledge [3].
The Compañía Nacional de Danza is modeled closely on the Netherlands Dance Theater: classically trained dancers with a repertory of work by the company director and a selected number of other choreographers, using a dance language based on a fusion of classical and modern-dance idioms.
When trying to construct a translation manual for a foreign language based on verbal behavior, there is a problem of underdetermination.
Flip has two main components: 1) a visual language (based on an interlocking blocks design common to many current visual languages), and 2) a dynamically updating natural language version of the script under creation.
They talk like the priests of an oriental church, in a Coptic language based on scripture we're too uneducated to understand.
Core sets appear as a way to standardise sentences: this is like building an invented language, based on a shared lexicon (the codes) and syntactic and semantic conventions.
