There are, properly speaking, no organs of speech; there are only organs that are incidentally useful in the production of speech sounds.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.8

The lungs, the larynx, the palate, the nose, the tongue, the teeth, and the lips, are all so utilized, but they are no more to be thought of as primary organs of speech.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.8

[...] while our ear is delicately responsive to the sounds of speech, the muscles of our speech organs have early in life become exclusively accustomed to the particular adjustments [...] required to produce the traditional sounds of the language.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.45

[...] the extreme difficulty we experience in learning the new sounds of foreign languages is sufficient evidence of the strange rigidity that has set in for most people in the voluntary control of the speech organs.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.45

The organs of speech are the lungs and bronchial tubes; the throat [...] the larynx [...]; the nose; the uvula [...] the palate [...] divided into a posterior, movable 'soft palate' or velum and a 'hard palate'; the tongue; the teeth; and the lips.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.46