In what way does binary resemble a language?

Our computers are digital computers as opposed to analog computers. Digital computers process data and instructions made up of Words or bytes which are composed of a number of bits. Normally 8 bits make a byte, either 2 bytes (16 bits) or 4 bytes (32 bits) make a computer instruction or a data Word. It all depends on the computer design.

The smallest piece of information (part of an instruction or data) is the bit. A bit represents something that can have two values. We call them "0" and "1". Because it can only have two values, we refer to the computer as a binary computer and its machine language as a binary language.