"Here it is fitting to remark that the study of the spontaneous growth of languages is of the utmost importance to those who would logically remodel them."
Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and signed forms, and may also be conveyed through writing. Human language is characterized by its cultural and historical diversity, with significant variations observed between cultures and across time. Human languages possess the proper
"Each language is the sign and power of the soul of the people which naturally speaks it. Each develops therefore its own peculiar spirit, thought-temperament, way of dealing with life and knowledge and experience.... A nation, race or people which loses its language, cannot live its whole life or its real life. And this advantage to the national life is at the same time an advantage to the general life of the human race."
Language"The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology."
Language"LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding anothers treasure."
Language"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland — and no other."
Language"Languages must be taken as organic natural bodies which form themselves according to definite laws."
Language"One can learn to speak a new language, but [learning] to embrace the weight of its meaning from its people, within Pacific contexts and mannerism, can never be replaced."
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