They are language-independent but may still have a higher incidence in one community than another. Anecdotally, these basic mistakes seem to happen more in Node packages or JS-based projects, but I have no concrete evidence for this speculation. The only study I know of looking at this in a serious way is this one:

http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~filkov/papers/lang_github.pdf (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558740)

However, JavaScript ends up a being less prone to defective commits than C++ and C, as well as PHP and Python, but there are a number of issues that don't allow us to conclude all that much from these results (imo).