“The intangible heritage of a society, that collective memory that survives the passage of time and is transmitted from generation to generation, could not exist were it not for the “codes” that, like fine threads, help to weave it and keep it solid enough to travel from mouth to mouth and from hand to hand.

Of all such “codes”, the most important is language: the one in which the word, both spoken and written, is expressed. There are others: gestural codes, musical codes, visual codes… However, the richest and most widely used globally, throughout the history of the human species, is linguistic.”