Introduction to Linguistics

Language originated from the latin word "Lingua" which literally means "Tounge".

He said that Language is a speech sound produced by human beings to express their ideas, emotions, thoughts, desires and feelings

He said that Language is an arbitrary system of signs constituted of the signifier and signified.

Study of signs and how they are constituted by signifier and signified.

Language focuses on the utterances produced by all the people of a community and hence overlooks writing.

Language is the inherent capability of the native speaker to understand and form native language.

language is a system of arbitrary vocal sounds through a social group that cooperates.

Is the scientific study of language, scientific methods to conduct formal studies of speech sounds, grammatical structures, and meaning across the world.

Is the scientific study of language, scientific methods to conduct formal studies of speech sounds, grammatical structures, and meaning across the world.

Hearing and understanding