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Oct 20, 2012

Knowledge-Language

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Language?

What is it? A language is means of communication. What are its uses? We use languages in many ways and for many purposes. We write in a language, we speak in a language and we listen to a language. Our daily life includes a language. We work with a language, experiment with language, communicate in a language, read and understand a language etc. We do a lot of things in a day. Most of these require a language. So, most of the things we do are all by the means of a language. We even modify the language, for many purposes like making it simpler to understand or to create a new meaning.

Now, if we leave that aside, just look at how many languages we have on our Earth, that are being used right now. There are millions or billions of languages that can be created and used, but we only know about a few thousand of those. But, with languages we have also separated us humans, into groups that speak only a few particular languages. For example, if you go to Mexico, only Spanish is spoken by the people. So, languages have branches, like some countries like India have several languages that are spoken and used. Now just look at this tree of languages and see how many languages you can find on it.