Deep into the roots of Language!
Birth of language:
Man is a Social animal. He has been trying to express his idea through ages. In the past man
used symbols and gestures to communicate with one and other. Later it got adavced into words,
these words became sentences and later on this gave birth to the formation of language
Definition of a language:
A language is the means by which expression and thoughts are exchanged.
The forms of language:
Man expresses his thoughts by speaking and writing while receives other's expression by
listening and reading their thoughts. Emotion and thoughts are expressed through signs. But
signs have thier limit, but not mostly taken into consideration. But let me tell you that there is
something known as sign language. Sign language is used by the deaf and the dum to express
their own feeling.
The two main basics forms of language are-
LANGUAGE
Oral language Written language
Oral language: The name suggests that the language is basically oral. The expression of the
thoughts and ideas take place through speaking and listening. We all learn oral language as our
first lessons of our life.
Written language: Oral language is never permanent as it has day to day advancement in the
past and even now. This gave birth to written language. The expression of the thoughts and
ideas take place through reading and writting. We require learning for this.
Other dimensions of forms of language:
What's a dialect?
A dialect is a short or regional form of language. It does not have a written literature form, but
it do consists of folktales and folksongs. Most of the languages devlope from dialects. Hindi is
derived from a dialect called ‘Khadi Boli’.
Difference between dialect and language.
Dialect Language
1. It is spoken in limited areas. 1. It I spoken oner wide areas.
2. It has oral literature 2. It has written literature
3. It's format is not standard 3. It's forma is standard
The different categories of languages:
① Mother tounge: It's the language that each of us speak at our homes. The appropriate
medium of our knowledge
② National language: The language that is spoken in most of the regions of the country.
The national language of India is Hindi as it is spoken by 70% of the population.
③ Official language: It's a language used for the official work for the government. On
September 14,1949 ;Hindi was given the status as the Official language by the
Constitution of India. It is celebrated as ‘Hindi Day’.
④ Standard language:To maintain uniformity in the forms of language used by scholar
this format is used. Khadi Bholi Hindi is the standard form in India.
⑤ Link language: The link language is a language used to communicate with common
people. English is the link language India.
There are 22 major languages in India.
Birth of a Script:
When the human society developed a little more there wasn’t much spread for verbal
communication. Man made some sketches or lines to illustrate his points. These lines became
fixed. The script was developed. It became the basis of written language. It evolved over a long
period of time.
Just as there are many languages in the world so are the scripts.
Here are an few examples of languages and their script:
① Hindi,Marathi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Nepali, Santhali, Bodo - Devanagiri Script
② English, French, German - Roman Script
③ Urdu - Persian Script
④ Punjabi - Gurmukhi Scrip
⑤ Bengali - Bangala Script
The Rise and Need for Grammar and Literature:
Grammar-
Humans had language as well as script. But a person’s talk was understood in a different
perspective by different people. This led to the idea of making some rules so that all follow the
same format of language which makes communication easier. Grammar was developed. Which
took the responsibility of checking the correct usage of language. So, grammar is a scripture
through which knowledge of pure form and usage of language is learnt.
The three main components of grammar are:
1. Syntax: Its the order or arrangement of words and phrases to form proper sentences.
2. Morphology: It's is the structure and construction of words.
3. Phonology: It refers to the rules of sound system and the rules of sound combination.
Literature-
Accumulated corpus of knowledge is called as literature. It is the artistic form of conveying
ones idea and thoughts through verse and prose.
Verse: It is also called as poetry. The poet ecpresses his thoughts and feelings through verses,
rhyme and rhythm. This is called poetry literature.
Prose: In this the author ecpresses his feelings or thought through systemat language and
creative process. Essay, story, novel, drama, autobiography, journal comes under prose
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