Tongue, Speech, Language.+-- We speak of the "English tongue" or of the "French language"; and we say of two nations that they "do not understand each other's speech." The existence of these three words-- +speech+, +tongue+, +language+-- proves to us that a language is something +spoken+,-- that it is a number of +sounds+; and that the writing or printing of it upon paper is a quite secondary matter. Language, rightly considered, then, is an +organised set of sounds+. These sounds convey a meaning from the mind of the speaker to the mind of the hearer, and thus serve to connect man with man
