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What is a language?

Don't give me those linguistic definitions. I am interested in how would a person who has never studied about language explain what it is.

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  • 6 years ago
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    When one thinks about language, it really is a miracle. This is because it is a "set of words, or sounds, that collectively is understood by a whole social system that each word, or sound, or even spelling is the same meaning for all. That alone is a miracle---evolutionists, please explain HOW this happens so easily among various social groups, various languages? Especially by the ones under 5 years of age, as being the easiest ones to learn language?

  • 6 years ago

    Language is a way of conferring information from one entity to another, usually through audible sounds, body motions, or written symbols have agreed upon meanings.

  • It's a way people communicate and convey meaning. Most are spoken, but some are only written.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    A system of sounds shared by a group of people who agree on the meaning of the sounds.

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