"Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary."
Languages refer to systems of communication consisting of structured words and sounds used by humans to convey meaning within a specific community.
Translation Studies: It is the study of translation as a practice and a discipline, including issues of culture, language, and identity.
Natural Language: These are languages that have evolved naturally through human communication, such as English, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, etc.
Constructed Language: These are languages that have been deliberately created by an individual or group for a specific purpose, such as Esperanto, Klingon, and Dothraki.
Formal Language: These are languages used in formal contexts, such as mathematics, computer programming, and logic.
Sign Language: These are languages that use gestures, facial expressions, and body movements to convey meaning, such as American Sign Language and British Sign Language.
Dead Language: These are languages that are no longer spoken or used in everyday communication, such as Latin and ancient Greek.
Creole Language: These are languages that result from the mixing of two or more languages, such as Jamaican Creole, Haitian Creole, and Louisiana Creole.
Dialect: These are regional varieties of a language that differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, such as different dialects of English spoken in England, Scotland, and Australia.
Pidgin: These are simplified languages that develop as a means of communication between different communities that do not share a common language, such as Nigerian Pidgin and Tok Pisin.
Secret Language: These are languages that only a certain group of people can understand, such as argot used by criminals and thieves or the slang used by teenagers.
Artificial Language: These are language systems that are specifically created for machine to human or human-to-machine communication. Examples include markup languages and programming languages, such as HTML, SQL and Python.
"It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and written forms."
"The vast majority of human languages have developed writing systems that allow for the recording and preservation of the sounds or signs of language."
"Human language is characterized by its cultural and historical diversity, with significant variations observed between cultures and across time."
"Human languages possess the properties of productivity and displacement, which enable the creation of an infinite number of sentences."
"The use of human language relies on social convention and is acquired through learning."
"Estimates of the number of human languages in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000."
"In other words, human language is modality-independent, but written or signed language is the way to inscribe or encode the natural human speech or gestures."
"When used as a general concept, 'language' may refer to the cognitive ability to learn and use systems of complex communication."
"The scientific study of language is called linguistics."
"Critical examinations of languages, such as philosophy of language, the relationships between language and thought, how words represent experience, etc., have been debated..."
"Thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) have argued that language originated from emotions."
"Others like Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) have argued that languages originated from rational and logical thought."
"Language is processed in many different locations in the human brain, but especially in Broca's and Wernicke's areas."
"Humans acquire language through social interaction in early childhood, and children generally speak fluently by approximately three years old."
"...language has social uses such as signifying group identity, social stratification, as well as use for social grooming and entertainment."
"Languages evolve and diversify over time, and the history of their evolution can be reconstructed by comparing modern languages..."
"A group of languages that descend from a common ancestor is known as a language family."
"A language that has been demonstrated to not have any living or non-living relationship with another language is called a language isolate."
"Academic consensus holds that between 50% and 90% of languages spoken at the beginning of the 21st century will probably have become extinct by the year 2100."