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Difference In Human Language

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Chapter I
Introduction
Definitions of Language
Language means a lot to the human society. Language has made our life civilised. Language gives identity to the people and it also represents the culture of a particular region and its people. Raj Paul Kaur states about the connection between language and culture as: “It is a widely accepted sociolinguistic fact that the language and culture are related. In fact, a colleague of mine, Dr. Hamzah Al-omar of the University of Jordan, has commented to me many times that language and culture are synonyms”(Raj pal, 2006, p. ). It is usually said by great people and linguists that language is unique to humans. What makes human language unique is not that it helps to communicate with each other, but that it allows us to do so with infinite variety. A monkey can scream to warn its troop mates of an approaching predator, but it cannot communicate something like ‘with a little salt, this fig would taste divine’, only human beings can utter that kind of grammatical sentences. Language differentiates human being from the other animals.
Cambridge dictionary defines language as: “is a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and grammar, or the system of communication used by people in a particular country or type of work” (Cambridge online dictionary).
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It plays a major role in our day to day life. “ Language is essential to every aspect and interaction in our everyday lives. We use language to inform the people around us of what we feel, what we desire, and for questioning and understanding the world around us. We communicate effectively with our words, gestures, and tone of voice in a multitude of situation” (Science museum). After the language started to evolve and involve with the everyday life of human beings, it started developing day by day. Now we have well refined and structured language, written communication along with spoken

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