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Language is a system of spoken, manual, or written symbols through which human beings, as members of social groups and participants in their culture to communicate.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Language is the representation of the experience of the mind
Aristotle
Large is an arbitrary systems of signs.
Ferdinand de saussure
any material thing that gives meaning, such as words, sounds, facial expressions, gestures, or an image
Signifier
the concept evoked in the mind of person
Signified
Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires through a system of voluntarily produced sounds.
Edward Sapir
language is a set of
finite and infinite
each finite length constructed out of a limited set of words
Noam Chomsky