Possible Clues:

• Single out character sometimes dropped in language
• What you might get for breakfast in London, in a manner of speaking
• Language in foreign glen I don't speak!
• Our language
• The type of language used by all sides today
• With 39 Across, water north of France
• Shingle broken up for old printing type
• Loose shingle from a part of these shores
• The __, novel by Michael Ondaatje
• The patient's nationality in Michael Ondaatje's 1992 prize winner