Of course,with signers,their first language has no written system at all, just hand gestures.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

He published a treatise that he had written earlier on grammar, inventing his own system for the understanding and the learning of the Latin language.

发表了一篇他之前写的关于语法的论文，在这篇论文中他创建了自己的一套理解和学习,拉丁文的体系。

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You had a semiotic system, whereas before, yesterday, or a minute ago you had no language at all.

一个符号系统诞生了，然而之前，昨天，或者就是一分钟前，根本就没有语言。

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The orthography is the written system and spelling of a language.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

Now, language is not the only thing in culture or nature that has this sort of combinatorial system.

语言并不是在文化或自然中,唯一拥有这种组合系统的事物

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But with threats, a language barrier and fear of the legal system, victims often do not or are unable to seek help.

VOA: standard.2010.05.24

So, we have the sound system of a language, the phonology.

语言拥有声音系统,也就是语音

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It has over 700 different language groups, no national transport system to speak of and few government services that actually operate outside of the capital, Port Moresby.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

Well, in any case, so language is a system of signs.

所以，语言是一个符号系统。

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They take this makeshift communication system developed by adults and, again, they turn it into a full-blown language, suggesting that to some extent it's part of our human nature to create languages.

他们继承了成人发展出来的临时交流系统,将这个临时交流系统,再次发展成一种成熟的语言,这表明从某种程度上来说,创造语言是我们人类本性的一部分

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