This state of the language, which he calls 'artificial', cannot be the primeval one, which he terms 'natural', wherein sound was not an abstract sign, but a concrete gesture or natural sign.
See keele vorm, mida ta nimetab kunstlikuks, ei saa olla ürgne, mida ta nimetab loomulikuks, kus heli ei olnud abstraktne märk, vaid konkreetne märguanne.