Some about languages

موضوع: Some about languages 2011-07-25, 00:48

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this paragraph is for comprehension ---- it is about languages generally
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Languages

Many things about languages are a mystery, and many will always remain
so. But some things we do know.

First, we
know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There is no race of
people anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language, no set of speech
sounds by which the people communicate with one another. Furthermore, in
historical times, there has never been a race of people without a language.

Second, there is no such thing as a
primitive language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, who
are, as we say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive. In
all known languages we can see complexities that must have been tens of
thousands of years in developing.

This has not always been understood indeed,
the direct contrary has often been stated. Popular ideas of the language of the
American Indians will illustrate. Many people have supposed that the Indians
communicated in a very primitive system of noises. They said "ugh"
and they said "how" and they uttered a few miscellaneous grunts, and
otherwise they communicated by waving their arms at one another. Study has
proved this to be nonsense. There are, or were, hundreds of American Indian
languages, and all of them turn out to be very elaborate, and very old. They
are certainly different from the languages that most of

us are familiar with, but they are no more primitive than English or
Greek.

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موضوع: رد: Some about languages 2011-07-25, 01:30

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