language is arbitrary.explain
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In linguistics, arbitrariness is the absence of any natural or necessary connection between a word's meaning and its sound or form. An antithesis to sound symbolism, which does exhibit an apparent connection between sound and sense, arbitrariness is one of the characteristics shared between all languages
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Language is arbitrary because a language form does not have an innate or natural relationship with its meaning. ... Words and other forms have meaning only as parts of a system, with each form deriving meaning solely from its difference from the other forms in the system. Language forms are arbitrary rather than iconic.
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