Posted 12 January 2007 - 08:49 PM
Language is a concept that has attracted various definition from different observation.Language can be interpreted,namely,the general perspective and the restritive perspective.General perspective is all means of communication,human or non human while narrow perspective is a clear distinction between the human language and non human means of comunication.Also it is the use of sound, signs and symbols in a human society for communication and self expression.
However,all embraccing definition of language which takes cognizance of the two major views can be fashioned, hence language is defined as a systemic means of expressing ideas, fact, views, thought, oppinions or a means of passing information by the use of appropriate signs, sound, symbols, gesture etc..
Language can broadly classified into verbal language and non verbal languagee.Under verbal language is the SPOKEN word and can be regarded as human basic language.It is the use of the human speech organ with which vocal sounds are logically formed.The written language is another form of verbal language which is just the visual alphabetical representation of the spoken language.
The non verbal language is otherwisw called pare language because it does not involve the use of speech or writting but the para-linguistic means BODY MOVEMENT.The non verbal language can be used to better express the idea of a verbal because"ACTION AT TIMES SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS"
The use of the sign language to express virtually everything is a significant improvement on, or development of the non-verbal language.
In respect to AI, there are words that are ARCHAIC LANGUAGE this is otherwise called archaism and it it is refers to, or characterized by the use of old or out dated vocabulary.Hence,they are words and expression that are no longer common in current present language usage.Accient words like CREATE.These are HIDDEN WORDS and pass word to decode an idiomatic language in a non-verbal language such as body movement, laughter, groaning and other physical appearance.Some idioms are derived from phrased verbs such as give in, give up etc..
As a result of this,let us look at the characteristics of language so that we can understand the indeginious act of the ARCHAIC language as aform of language.These are some various characteristics of a typical human language.
Characteristics of language........
Language is a living phenomeno.This is features or quality attributed to language because language just like other living things or creatures can be born,can grow and also die.Creating or devising a language is like giving birth to a language.And it can be assumed that most human languages, from Biblica perspective were the devine linguistic confusion at Babel {Gen 11}...