*NAOMI*
*OUR PRIVATE LANGUAGE*
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*(~) 135 LANGUAGE FAMILIES”*
(as of ’10 february 2021′)
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“INDO-EUROPEAN”
(~ 3.2 billion speakers)
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*NIGER CONGO*
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*AS OF ’10 MARCH 2023’*
*’language’ is the ability to ‘acquire’ and ‘use’ *complex systems of ‘communication’*, particularly the human ability to do so, and a language is any specific example of such a ‘system’*
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(the scientific study of ‘language’ is called ‘linguistics’)
(questions concerning the ‘philosophy’ of ‘language’, such as whether ‘words’ can represent ‘experience’, have been debated 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)
(20th-century philosophers such as ‘wittgenstein’ argued that ‘philosophy’ is really the ‘study of ‘language”)
(major figures in ‘linguistic’s include ‘ferdinand de saussure’ and ‘noam chomsky’)
(estimates of the # of ‘languages’ in the world vary between ‘5000’ and ‘7000’)
(however, any ‘precise estimate’ depends on a partly arbitrary distinction between ‘languages’ + ‘dialects’)
(‘natural languages’ are ‘spoken or ‘signed’, but any ‘language’ can be ”encoded’ into ‘secondary media” using ‘auditory’, ‘visual’, or ‘tactile’ *stimuli* – for example, in ‘whistling’, ‘signed’, or ‘braille’)
(this is because ‘human language’ is ‘modality-independent’)
(depending on ‘philosophical perspectives’ regarding the definition of ‘language’ and ‘meaning’, when used as a ‘general concept’, “language” may refer to the ‘cognitive ability’ to ‘learn’ and ‘use’ systems of ‘complex communication’, or to describe the ”set’ of ‘rules” that makes up these ‘systems’, or the ”set’ of ‘utterances” that can be ‘produced’ from those ‘rules’)
(all ‘languages’ rely on the process of ‘semiosis’ to relate signs to particular meanings)
(‘oral’, ‘manual’, and ‘tactile’ languages contain a ‘phonological system’ that governs how ‘symbols’ are used to form ‘sequences’ known as ‘words’ or ‘morphemes’, and a ‘syntactic system’ that governs how ‘words’ and ‘morphemes’ are combined to form ‘phrases’ and ‘utterances’)
(‘human language’ has the properties of ‘productivity’ and ‘displacement’, and relies entirely on ‘social convention’ and ‘learning’)
(its ‘complex structure’ affords a much wider range of ‘expressions’ than ”any known system of ‘animal communication”)
(‘language’ is thought to have originated when early ‘hominins’ started gradually changing their ‘primate communication systems’, acquiring the ability to form a ‘theory of other ‘minds” and a ‘shared intentionality’)
(this development is sometimes thought to have coincided with an increase in ‘brain volume’, and many ‘linguists’ see the structures of ‘language’ as having ‘evolved’ to serve specific ”communicative’ and ‘social’ functions’)
(‘language’ is processed in many different locations in the ‘human brain’, but especially in ‘broca’s’ and ‘wernicke’s’ areas)
(humans acquire ‘language’ through ‘social interaction’ in ‘early childhood’, and ‘children’ generally ‘speak fluently’ when they are approximately ‘3 years old’)
“MY ‘FIRST WORDS’?
(ask ‘parents’ / ‘older siblings’ / ‘family’ / ‘friends’)
“ball””
“‘ball’ you say?”
“ball!”
“bullshit!”
“at what age did i speak ‘fluently”?’
(is there a (dimensionless) ‘point’ in which one is deemed ‘fluent’ in any ‘given language’?)
(for ‘spoken word?’
(who was ‘paying’ most ‘attention’ to me?)
(“this is (not) a test”…”this is only a test”…)
(does ‘mom’ remember?)
(like hopes for ‘trophy children’?)
(how much are these ‘baby stats’ correlated with “future success’ (or even ‘future IQ score’!))
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(the use of ‘language’ is deeply entrenched in ‘human culture’)
(therefore, in addition to its strictly ‘communicative’ uses, ‘language’ also has many ‘social’ and ‘cultural’ uses, such as signifying ‘group identity’, ‘social stratification’, as well as ‘social grooming’ and ‘entertainment’)
(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’)
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MOST WIDELY SPOKEN “LANGUAGE FAMILY*
*”INDO-EUROPEAN” FAMILY”*
(includes ‘languages’ as diverse as…)
(‘english’ / ‘russian’ / ‘hindi’)
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*OTHER “LANGUAGE FAMILIES”*
“SINO-TIBETAN” FAMILY*
(“‘mandarin’/ ‘bodo’ *(and the other ‘chinese’ languages)*”) / ‘tibetan’)
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*”‘AFRO-ASIATIC’ FAMILY”*
(‘arabic’ / ‘somali’ / ‘hebrew’)
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*”‘BANTU’ FAMILY”*
(*’swahili’ / ‘zulu’ *(and ‘hundreds of other ‘languages’ spoken throughout ‘africa’)*)
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*”‘MALAYO-POLYNESIAN’ FAMILY”*
(‘indonesian’ / ‘malay’ / ‘tagalog’ *(and hundreds of other ‘languages’ spoken throughout the ‘pacific’)*)
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*”‘DRAVIDIAN’ FAMILY”*
(‘southern indian languages’: ‘tamil’ / ‘telugu’)
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(‘academic consensus’ holds that between ‘50%’ and ‘90%’ of ‘languages’ spoken at the beginning of the ’21st century’ will probably have become ‘extinct’ by the year ‘2100’)
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“extinct” you say?
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“EXTINCT” i said!”
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(why not just recognize them as ‘proto’-languages in a ‘continuous lingustic chain’?)
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“hmmm…why ‘i’…”
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*FADE TO BLACK*
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥