2,489 Quotes About Language

Our children's won't learn Kurdish Language fluently if we don't tech them.

Language death is like no other form of disappearance. When people die, they leave signs of their presence in the world, in the form of their dwelling places, burial mounds, and artefacts - in a word, their archaeology. But spoken language leaves no archaeology. When a language dies, which has never been recorded, it is as if it has never been.

One's thought patterns become different, he said, when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation.

The name one gives is inessential.What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.

Language is where the tongue fails itself over & over again.

Language lives in the mind, moves around with the tongue and gets its meaning in action!

Language was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistible compulsion to eavesdrop on conversations in public places.

You must have also observed the masculine bias in the English language itself, in which women—literally, 'not men'—are daily confronted with the terror, unknowable to men, of concepts which they can imagine, but which an inherently patriarchal language does not allow them to express.

Human spoken language seems to beadventitious. The exploitation of organ systems with other functions for communication in humans is also indicative of the comparatively recent evolution of our linguistic abilities.