"formation of language" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to mean the process by which a language is developed or the specific elements that make up a language. For example: "The formation of language has been studied by linguists for centuries."
He wrote a book entitled "Method in Formation of Language," but couldn't get financial backing to have it published.
These groupings allowed the formation of language feature sub-tests and discussion of separate results for individual language features.
Most important, though, is that Schlegel "does not limit the realm of sensuality and feeling to an early stage in the formation of language" (Behler, 2000, 81).
This was the moment Lee became interested with the formation of language, and in how it came to be loaded with politics.
In areas where many languages are in close contact, this may lead to the formation of language areas in which unrelated languages share a number of linguistic features.
He also published an essay on the first formation of languages, and student notes of his lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres, and on jurisprudence have survived.
And, just as certain creatures are the last surviving testimony to a form of life which nature has discarded, I wondered whether music might not be the unique example of what might have been - if the invention of language, the formation of words, the analysis of ideas had not intervened - the means of communication between souls.
That compares with around a fifth for biological species.All this suggests that the formation of both languages and species is an active process.
"The formation of different languages and of distinct species, and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel" (Darwin 1871).
In situations of extreme and sustained language contact, it may lead to the formation of new mixed languages that cannot be considered to belong to a single language family.
