The Indian philosophy of language consists of an assortment of topics among which how human speech descends from our thoughts to the vocal cords remains significant with a longer history. Vedic insights into the journey of speech clearly impacted later philosophies to bolster their foundations to construct stronger arguments but Bhartṛhari (fl. 500 - 700 CE), in his grammatical chef-d'oeuvre entitled the Vākyapadīya, brought to light a philosophically justifiable way in which the language is stratified in terms of its origin and course. This study succinctly explores how Bhartṛhari presents the language stratification and some views of his contemporaries on it, while comparing his thoughts, where applicable, with relevant positions of recent philosophers and linguists beyond Indian soil