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What is language ?
Definitions of language
Language is the human ability to acquire and use complex. system of communication
Language is a system that enables humans to exchange.verbal or symbolic utterances
A system of communication consisting of sounds, words,and grammar, or the system of communication used
.by people in particular country or type of work
Pasmmeticus (Egyptian pharaoh) let two newborn infants grow up in the company of goats and a mute
shepherd, after two years the children were reported
to have started saying the Phrygian word bekos
(bread)
The pharaoh concluded that Phrygian must be the .original language
However, children discovered living in isolation do not
.confirm these findings but grow up with no language
:Linguistic functions
Interactional function- 1
Transactional function- 2
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