"tonguage" meaning in English

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          "text": "Whether the ideas underlying them are expressed and conveyed by eyeage or by tonguage is a detail that matters nothing.",
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          "ref": "1956, Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young, Letters of Edward Elgar and other writings",
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