hum vs language

hum

noun
  • Unpleasant odour. 

  • A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. 

  • Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive. 

  • A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. 

  • An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. 

intj
  • Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c. 

  • Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c. 

verb
  • To produce low sounds which blend continuously 

  • To express by humming. 

  • To reek, smell bad. 

  • To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. 

  • To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly 

  • To buzz, be busily active like a beehive 

language

noun
  • Profanity. 

  • A computer language; a machine language. 

  • A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate. 

  • A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication. 

  • The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text. 

  • A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field. 

  • Manner of expression. 

  • The ability to communicate using words. 

  • The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does. 

  • A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ. 

intj
  • An admonishment said in response to vulgar language. 

verb
  • To communicate by language; to express in language. 

How often have the words hum and language occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )