In its folk sense, language is often used to mean any [[communication]] system—the "[[dance]]" of honeybees, the significance of type and [[color]] of flowers given to someone, computer codes, the [[posture]] and [[gestures]] included in "[[body]] language," and so on. Although these are indeed communication systems, they are not examples of language because they lack specific properties of human language, including especially the following: | In its folk sense, language is often used to mean any [[communication]] system—the "[[dance]]" of honeybees, the significance of type and [[color]] of flowers given to someone, computer codes, the [[posture]] and [[gestures]] included in "[[body]] language," and so on. Although these are indeed communication systems, they are not examples of language because they lack specific properties of human language, including especially the following: |