What Is A Language?
Here are some definitions of language:
- a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols WordNet
- a system of words used in a particular discipline WordNet
- the code we all use to express ourselves and communicate to others Speech & Language Therapy Glossary of Terms
- a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements Noam Chomsky.
These definitions describe language in terms of the following components:
- A vocabulary of symbols or words
- A grammar consisting of rules of how these symbols may be used
- A community of people who use and understand these symbols
- A range of meanings that can be communicated with these symbols
Each of these components is also found in the language of mathematics.
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