Ebbinghaus: Language is a system of conventional signs that can be voluntarily produced at any time.

Dittrich: Language is the totality of expressive abilities of individual human beings and animals capable of being understood by at least one other individual. | Eisler: Language is any expression of experiences by a creature with a soul. | B. Erdmann: Language is not a kind of communication of ideas but a kind of thinking: stated or formulated thinking. Language is a tool, and in fact a tool or organ of thinking that is unique to us as human beings. | Forbes: Language is an ordered sequence of words by which a speaker expresses his thoughts with the intention of making them known to a hearer. | J. Harris : Words are the symbols of ideas both general and particular: of the general, primarily, essentially and immediately; of the particular, only secondarily, accidentally and mediately. | Hegel: Language is the act of theoretical intelligence in its true sense, for it is its outward expression. | Jespersen: Language is human activity which has the aim of communicating ideas and emotions. | Jodl: Verbal language is the ability of man to fashion, by means of combined tones and sounds based on a limited numbers of elements, the total stock of his perceptions and conceptions in this natural tone material in such a way that this psychological process is clear and comprehensible to others to its least detail. | Kainz : Language is a structure of signs, with the help of which the representation of ideas and facts may be effected, so that things that are not present, even things that are completely imperceptible to the senses, may be represented. | De Laguna: Speech is the great medium through which human co-operation is brought about. | Marty: Language is any intentional utterance of sounds as a sign of a psychic state. | Pillsbury-Meader: Language is a means or instrument for the communication of thought, including ideas and emotions. | De Saussure: Language is a system of signs expressive of ideas. | Schuchardt. The essence of language lies in communication. | Sapir: Langu