The document discusses the key characteristics of language according to various linguists. It notes that language is a systematic set of arbitrary symbols that are meaningful, conventional, and used for communication by humans. Language is also described as unique yet universal, productive, dynamic, and varying while serving functions such as referring to the world, directing behavior, and expressing imagination.

2.  Bloch and Trager, quoted by Lyons 1981: 4.
 Hall, quoted by Lyons 1981: 4.
 Robins, quoted by Lyons 1981: 6.

3.  Keraf (1997:1).
 Dictionary of linguistics kridalaksanaharimurti third
edition.

4.  That language is a system.
 The language is a tangible symbol.
 Language is the forms of sound.
 Language that are arbitrary.
 Language is meaningful.
 The language is conventional.

5.  The language is unique.
 Language is universal.
 Language that is productive.
 The language varies.
 Language is dynamic.
 The language of human.

6.  Prersonal or private function
 Function directives
 Function Fatigue
 Referential function
 Imaginative function