Meanings of latter language in English

Even tourists in Alsace-Lorraine nowadays fare badly without some smattering of the latter language.

This chapter was sung, not only in Hebrew, but in Arabic, in countries where the latter language was the vernacular.

Lilia had picked up hardly any of the latter language, and Signor Carella had not yet learnt any of the former.

I saw books of prayer, or Scripture, in Hebrew, Greek, and German: in which latter language Dr. Alexander preaches every Sunday.

French and German, and especially the latter language, are absolutely indispensable to those who desire full knowledge in any department of science.

Although the man spoke English as well as he spoke French, it was in the latter language that the conversation was carried on.

The two latter languages, it is true, are spoken by the French and German shop-keepers settled here.