alleryHerder and Humboldt saw language as the expression of what?
AA person's private memory
BThe spirit of a nation
CAn innate universal code
DA tool for trade and markets
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. The spirit of a nation
1. These 19th-century thinkers were the first to express the idea explicitly.
2. They considered language as the expression of the spirit of a nation.
3. An innate universal code is the later universalist view.
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