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The term language is understood to mean the two closely related terms language (without the plural) or a language/languages. In the former sense, language refers to communication consisting of words, which is the most successful form of human communication. It is transmitted acoustically by surge waves, visually and spatially by gestures, by tactile gestures or lormen.
The science of language as a system is called general linguistics. Language has a vocabulary that contains semantic information and a grammar that relates words to one another.
The smallest element of a language is the word, the gesture or the exclamation. In a quote by Edward Sapir, the term language is presented as follows:
"Language is a uniquely human, non-instinctive method of conveying thoughts, feelings, and desires through a system of freely created symbols."
In the second sense of the word, a language is every single communication system that serves to understand each other. These are individual human languages, technical languages, computer languages, etc.
Some people call music the universal language because everyone understands it. The language of v. a. as a means of communicating feelings The term language is also used in a figurative sense in other areas.
All languages ??have changed over time in terms of pronunciation, word form, word usage, vocabulary and syntax. The first deviations come from individual people or groups in individual speech acts. As they are imitated, they change the language of the community.
Their dissemination and enforcement depend heavily on the reputation of the originator and the circle that first embraces them. Changes in the societal, social or political structure often lead to greater changes in the shape of speech, especially when a language is adopted by a population that speaks another language.
The influence of social factors on language ownership is expressed in the context of social change and linguistic communication. Social differentiation and differentiated linguistic expression behavior are closely interrelated. This applies to standard language as well as to class and group-specific group languages ??determined by social status, occupation and age.
The number of languages ??currently spoken on earth cannot be precisely determined, the figures range from 2,500 to 6,500 individual languages;
