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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def get_language(self):
 """\ Returns the language is by the article or the configuration language """

        # we don't want to force the target language
        # so we use the article.meta_lang
        if self.config.use_meta_language:
            if self.article.meta_lang:
                return self.article.meta_lang[:2]
        return self.config.target_language