Topic

Human Language

Outline Begin the from word

Relation between sound and meaning

Facts of human language

Features of human language

What do you thing how human begin

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No language was created in a day out of a mutually agreed upon formula by a

group of human. Language is the outcome of evolution and convention.

Each generation transmits this convention on to the text. Like all human institutions languages also change and die, grow and expand.

What is the relation between

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Dog in EnglishKutta in Hindi

Kukkur in Sanskrit Nai in Canada

Kukka in Telugu Kukur in Bangla

This is the four-legged domestic animal

What is this ?

There is no inherent or logical relation or similarity between

sound of a word and its meaning.

Facts of Human LanguageAll languages are equally complex and equally capable of expressing any idea

Facts of Human Language

Similar grammatical categories are found in all languages.

In English: subject + verb + objectIn Hindi: subject + object + verbIn Frence: subject + Verb + objectIn Japanese: subject + Verb + objectIn Chainese: subject + Verb + object

Facts of Human Language

The vocabulary of any language can be expanded

Facts of Human Language

There are semantic universals found in every language in the world.

MaleFemaleAnimateHuman

Facts of Human Language

Wherever humans exist, language exists

Features of human language

Language is Productive

and Receptive

Features of human language

Language is

Systematic

Features of human language

Language is

Social

Language is

Spoken

Language is

Symbolic

Features of human language

Language is

Social

Language is

Spoken

Features of human language

Language is

Social

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