IRS 2 Prelims - 1: Language

Do you think before you speak or do you speak before you think?

Language consists of various sound symbols and their graphological counterparts that are employed to denote some objects, occurrences, or meaning.

Language is a set of conventional communicative signals used by humans for communication in a community.

Language is symbolic, its symbols are arranged in a particular system, and all languages have their system of arrangements.

The structural elements of human language can be combined to produce new utterances, which neither the speaker nor his hearers may ever have made or heard before, yet both sides understand without difficulty.

Language is primarily made up of vocal sounds only produced by a physiological articulatory mechanism in the human body.

No language was created in a day out of a mutually agreed-upon formula by a group of humans. Language is the outcome of evolution and convention.