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Language is said to be abitrary because of the following reasons;

1. Human being is born without language, so man found words/language to communicate abitrary

2. There is no one to one correspondence between word and its object,,eg a cow and the animal itself

3. Even the invetion of words is abitrary, words are choosing randomly in order to be used.

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