NounSingular language Plural countable and uncountable; plural languages language (countable and uncountable; plural languages)
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Related termsFrom Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. A language is a particular kind of system for encoding and decoding information. In its most common use, the term refers to so-called "natural languages" — the forms of communication considered peculiar to humankind. In linguistics the term is extended to refer to the human cognitive facility of creating and using language. Essential to both meanings is the systematic creation and usage of systems of symbols—each symbol referring to linguistic concepts with semantic or logical or otherwise expressive meanings. The most obvious manifestations are spoken languages such as English or Spoken Chinese. However, there are also written languages and other systems of visual symbols such as sign languages. Although some other animals make use of quite sophisticated communicative systems, and these are sometimes casually referred to as animal language, none of these are known to make use of all of the properties that linguists use to define language in the strict sense. When discussed more technically as a general phenomenon then, "language" always implies a particular type of human thought which can be present even when communication is not the result, and this way of thinking is also sometimes treated as indistinguishable from language itself. In Western philosophy for example, language has long been closely associated with reason, which is also a uniquely human way of using symbols. In Ancient Greek philosophical terminology, the same word, logos, was used as a term for both language or speech and reason, and the philosopher Thomas Hobbes used the English word "speech" so that it similarly could refer to reason, as discussed below. From Wikipedia under the
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Q. I know that most languages start with many changes based on region and other languages influencing; but once a language has been established, what language hasn't changed much? For instance, a branch of the Celtic languages like Welsh, or a branch of the Romance languages like the Catalan language. Have these changed much since they were established as a spoken language? Have any others? Any languages that you know of that haven't changed much? Asked by >;-;< - Fri Nov 14 23:06:37 2008 - - 1 Answers - 1 Comments A. French is a good one. They have that institution thingy that a lot of people call the language police. (can't remember the real name) It is there to basically maintain the purity of the French language. Answered by pelirrojo_muy_loco - Mon Nov 17 15:12:40 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Language" Language is the term commonly used for any distinctive means of communication. There are several types of language, including , written language, and oral/aural language (spoken). The study of language is commonly called Linguistics. This theme article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the , to determine how to edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. This page has been listed as needing cleanup since 2006-09-03. This theme article is a stub. You can help Wikiquote by expanding it.Sourced
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