Linguistic competence is inborn, not acquired

Whatever language you study, you cannot do without a dictionary

Language as we know is a human invention

There are so-called primitive cultures in the jungles of the Amazon and on the island of New Guinea, and there are so-called advanced cultures in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but the languages of these cultures are all equally advanced and complex

He is at home in phonetics as well as linguistics

When we say that a language is culturally transmitted - that is, that it is learned rather than inherited - we mean that it is part of that whole complex of learned and shared behavior that anthropologists call culture

I did not study both of the languages

Two of my friends are researchers; one is a linguist, the other a chemist

Language is peculiar to man

Language is unique to man

That is to say, a language is something that we learn and are taught, not something that we know by instinct