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'''Language''', like [[culture]], is something that is easier to discuss than to define, and no unitary definition is offered here. Instead, what [[Anthropology|anthropologists]] and [[Linguistics|linguists]] mean by language is better understood by trying to be clear about what does and does not count as language. In some cases, this involves disentangling folk uses of the term language from scientific uses.
'''Language''', like [[culture]], is something that is easier to discuss than to define, and no unitary definition is offered here. Instead, what [[Anthropology|anthropologists]] and [[Linguistics|linguists]] mean by language is better understood by trying to be clear about what does and does not count as language. In some cases, this involves disentangling folk uses of the term language from scientific uses.
<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Language''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Language '''''this link'''''].</center>
<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Language''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Language '''''this link'''''].</center>
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:
==Properties==
==Properties==
