language

See Language (journal) for the linguistics journal. A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon. Though commonly used as a means of communication among people, human language is only one instance of this phenomenon. This article concerns the properties of language in general. For information specifically on the use of language by humans see the main article on natural language.
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(v. t.)
To communicate by language; to express in language.
  

(n.)
The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology.
  

(n.)
The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers.
  

(n.)
The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants.
  

(n.)
The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation.
  

(n.)
The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality.
  

(n.)
The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style.
  

(n.)
Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.
  

(n.)
A race, as distinguished by its speech.
  

Speech The vocal expression of thought in language, which implies the existence of mind which has reached self-consciousness on this plane, was not fully developed in mankind until the fourth root-race. The first root-race was devoid of mind on our plane; the second had a sound language of vowels, and its speech was largely onomatopoetic in character; the third developed in its beginning a speech which was little better than what are now known as animal sounds, but towards its end the first approximately fully developed human beings had monosyllabic speech, after the awakening of their minds by the manasaputras. Before that there was communication by what may be called thought-transference. After this monosyllabic speech, came the agglutinative, spoken by some Atlantean races, and then the inflectional language of the fifth root-race, represented by Sanskrit and its derivatives, and closely related languages such as Greek and Latin.
The great number and variety of languages is evidence of the great antiquity of the human race and its extensive division and subdivision. The elaborateness of languages spoken by so-called primitive peoples, especially their frequently highly complicated and extensive vocabulary, for which their modern representatives have but little use, shows that they are remnants of once highly civilized peoples.
That the priests of Atlantis addressed their gods in the language of those gods, is a mystical statement: they addressed the regents of the elements in the sound-language appropriate to the particular element. Vach is the mystic speech by which occult knowledge is communicated to man. See also LOGOS; MANTRAS; SOUND

A set of characters, conventions, and rules that is used for conveying information. (188 )