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Today I'll be treating on questions concerning the philosophy of learning languages.
Today I'll be treating on questions concerning the philosophy of learning languages.
Concerns such as whether words can represent experience, have been debated at least since Gorgias and Plato in ancient Greece. Thinkers such as Rousseau have argued that language originated from emotions while others like Kant have held that it originated from rational and logical thought. Substantially different systems of communication that may impede but do not prevent mutual comprehension are called dialects of a language. In order to describe in detail the actual different language patterns of individuals, the term idiolect , meaning the habits of expression of a single person, has been coined.
Estimates of the number of human languages in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000. However, any precise estimate depends on a partly arbitrary distinction between languages and dialects . Human language has the properties of productivity and displacement, and relies entirely on social convention and learning.
Languages evolve and diversify over time, and the history of their evolution can be reconstructed by comparing modern languages to determine which traits their ancestral languages must have had in order for the later developmental stages to occur. A group of languages that descend from a common ancestor is known as a language family .
The Indo-European family is the most widely spoken and includes languages as diverse as English , Russian and
The Indo-European family is the most widely spoken and includes languages as diverse as English , Russian and
Hindi ; the Sino-Tibetan family includes Mandarin, Bodo and the other Chinese languages, and Tibetan ; the Afro-Asiatic family includes Arabic , Somali , and Hebrew ; the Bantu languages include Swahili , and Zulu , and hundreds of other languages spoken throughout Africa ; and the Malayo-Polynesian languages include Indonesian, Malay , Tagalog , and hundreds of other languages spoken throughout the Pacific.
The languages of the Dravidian family spoken mostly in Southern India, include Tamil Telugu and Kannada . Academic consensus holds that between 50% and 90% of languages spoken at the beginning of the 2no1st century will probably have become extinct by the year 2100.
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The languages of the Dravidian family spoken mostly in Southern India, include Tamil Telugu and Kannada . Academic consensus holds that between 50% and 90% of languages spoken at the beginning of the 2no1st century will probably have become extinct by the year 2100.
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