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Language (n.) is not bound to sound: its expression can be gesture, the striate musculature, or a graphic substance addressed to the eye.
Sound (n.) is privileged as the substance of expression only by a prejudice: its primacy and its privilege go together.
Writing (n.) is a graphic substance addressed to the eye alone, which need not be turned into sound to be understood.
Writing (n.) has exactly the same value as speech for the linguist, since the choice of substance is not important.