It is similar because they are all communication method whether it is a sound or speaking of words. Human language have words that they speak rather than sounds which dogs, cats and birds make. Some dogs and cats do mimic human language but they lack the understanding of different grammar rules and sentence forms. They are merely recreating sounds that they hear from their surroundings. Birds do the same when they repeat what they hear and speak.
Language, in simple words; is a tool that we humans use for communication, either spoken, written or through the use of gestures. We live in a language interceded reality where language is the expression of more profound and universal patterns that underlie all human languages. Hence, it shapes our understanding of the physical and social worlds in a way that is uniquely human. The way humans communicate differs enormously from animal communication. Animals do convey messages to each other, it can be about the location of food, predator or feelings.
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.
2.2.2 Human Language According to linguistic anthropologist Charles F. Hockett (1960s), there are several characteristics regarding human language and they are named the design features of language. (Wkikpedia: Hockett’s design features, n.d., para. 1) (Is this direct quotation or indirection?) • Displacement This is the concern of time and place. Human can talk about things happened in the past, right now or even in the future, whereas animals can only communicate to events happening at that moment.
Language, in simple words; is a tool that we humans use for communication, either spoken, written or through the use of gestures. We live in a language interceded reality where language is the expression of more profound and universal patterns that underlie all human languages. Hence, it shapes our understanding of the physical and social worlds in a way that is uniquely human. The way humans communicate differs enormously from animal communication. Animals do convey messages to each other, it can be about the location of food, predator or feelings.
Language is a system of communication consisting of sounds, words and grammar, or the system of communication used by the people of a particular country or profession. Even animals communicate. Birds use sound and movement to transfer information. Likewise human beings use sound and movement like speech and gesture to communicate. Language is the fundamental factor leading and affecting communication.
Body language is defined as “communication by means of facial expressions, gestures, postures, and other wordless signals. Body language also includes … hair and clothing styles.” (World Book 2010, 435). It is used as an effective tool to understand how people feel and convey what they think. It is a product of learning or genetic inheritance. In different cultures, body language is explained in different ways.
Linguists have concluded that human language is the most sophisticated means of communication. First of all, language is used to transmit thought and feelings and this can be reached through voice sounds, gestures or written symbols. According to the previous definition of language, it is concluded that any living creature has a certain way to communicate. When it comes to comparing the animals' form of communication to human language; human language is more complex. To some African people you are a "thing" until you take possession of a language.
Understanding time: Animals are only able to relate time to them. They have no ability of relating time to third parties. Humans can wonder, speculate and search the annals of history for lessons, and apply those lessons to goals far into the future. Connections between words: While animals can understand simple words or tones, they do not communicate in complex sentences. Human beings have created hundreds of languages even though they are born without any way in which to communicate.
Language is a system of communication. It is a process of exchanging messages and creating meanings. There are four steps in which language can be described; the first one is to share and to understand, the second step is to converse, the third is to collaborate that is thinking, planning and making decisions and the last is the co-creation which is the joint activity, making and doing it together. Metaphorically, we call language as ‘communication’. This communication is not really limited to only words and the combination of words into sentences.