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What is language? »Its definition and meaning

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The word language has its origin in the Latin "lingua", at first it was used to refer to the organ with which the human being eats and speaks, later this concept was adapted due to a phenomenon of displacement by association called metonymy (change semantic) in which it was given a new meaning that designates a language.

In anatomy, the tongue is a mobile organ located inside the mouth, among its characteristics we find that it is a symmetrical muscle which performs fundamental functions such as chewing (grinding food), swallowing (passing food from the mouth to the pharynx) sense of taste and expression of language. We also have that the tongue is made up of skeleton, muscles, mucosa and taste buds.

On the other hand, the term language is used to refer to a language or the linguistic system that speakers learn and retain in their memory to develop the communication process. This means that the language is made up of a series of oral and written signs necessary for communication between people.

Each country, area or region is distinguished by having its own language (language), today there are about 4000 and 6000 languages ​​spoken around the world. Each language has its own system of codes and in some cases there are dialects or expressions that are not established in a linguistic or professional way but are variants of some mutant language; as for example those countries that have aboriginal zones, their spoken expression in this case would have the name of dialects.