Importance Of Human Language

According to the encyclopedia Britannica, language is the combination of words into sentences that can be in terms of spoken, written or even in signs. It is estimated that around 7000 languages existed and spoken by human beings such as Telegu, Japanese, Spanish and Arabic. Some of the words may carry different kind of meanings. Both humans and animals do communicate but the question is do we share the same way of communicating? The real answer is that human uses language such as English, Malay or Tamil while animal produces sounds to interact. For instance, lions are roaring and birds are chirping. The fact that animals cannot understand the human’s communication or vice versa proves that there is a clear distinction between humans and animals.

Without language, the world will remain silent with no words and speeches. The function of language is not simply for communication or interaction but to give orders, ask for help and apologizing, language is used to fulfill those purposes. Language can increase social skills and strengthen the bond between humans since we can share our thoughts, feelings, problems, memories with each other using language. There are different social skills that can be used to make a conversation, understand and communicate with people such as eye contact, tone voice and body language. Despite living with different generations in the same world, everyone should acquire language either spoken, written or sign in order to interact with the societies. Some claimed that the purposes of language can be divided into six groups which are for expressive purposes which express feelings, attitudes, and ideas without being affected by the audiences or listeners. Next, for informative purposes, it is to convey information or anything that is informative to others. Language is also for cognitive purposes to get responses from listeners and audiences. On the other hand it can work poetic purposes that focus on the structure or pattern of a language and for phatic purposes to make contact among people and being used in spoken communication is for phatic purposes. Lastly, the purpose of language is to critique or comment on a

Phylogeny stage developed in millennia time that somehow shows the link with the origin of human. The cooperation in human beings that comes from social development produces spoken language. This shows that when people socialize with each other, they will speak and make it as a language. Next, people got divided into few groups because of the social development. This few groups of people varies in written language such as slang, accent or dialect and the variety of dialects used by these people can be called as macrogenetic linguistics. For example, Chinese has classified the varieties into seven to ten groups like mandarin, wu, gan, and xiang while up to 200 individual dialects exist. Language also developed through human life