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Language:: Definition, Nature & Characteristics

The document defines curriculum as a structured set of intended learning outcomes in the form of knowledge, skills, and values. It defines language as a system of communication using words in a structured way to express thoughts and feelings. It lists six characteristics of language: 1) Language is a combination of sounds; 2) Words have meanings; 3) Language follows grammatical structure; 4) Language is based on oral and aural systems; 5) Language can die out; 6) Language can be diverse. It provides examples of how some languages have become extinct over time.

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Language:: Definition, Nature & Characteristics

The document defines curriculum as a structured set of intended learning outcomes in the form of knowledge, skills, and values. It defines language as a system of communication using words in a structured way to express thoughts and feelings. It lists six characteristics of language: 1) Language is a combination of sounds; 2) Words have meanings; 3) Language follows grammatical structure; 4) Language is based on oral and aural systems; 5) Language can die out; 6) Language can be diverse. It provides examples of how some languages have become extinct over time.

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LANGUAGE:

DEFINITION,
NATURE &
CHARACTERISTICS
WHAT IS
CURRICULUM
?
Curriculum is a structured set
of intendedlearning outcomes that
come in the form of knowledge,
skills and value; affected by
important factors of program
philosophy, goals, objectives, and
evaluation.
WHAT IS
LANGUAGE
?
The method of human
communication, either spoken or
written, consisting of the use of
words in a structured and
conventional way.
Language is a system of words or
signs that people use to express
thoughts and feelings to each other.

(merriam-webster.com)
Language is a system
communication, of amedium for
thought, and a social interaction.
WHAT ARE THE
NATURE AND
CHARACTERISTIC
S
OF LANGUAGE?
NATUR
E basic constitution of a person or
thing
CHARACTERISTICS
A feature that helps to identify,
tell apart, or describe recognizably; a
distinguishing mark or trait.
NATURE
OF
LANGUAGE
1

Language is a combination of
sounds.
2

Words have meanings.


MEANING ARE
IN PEOPLE NOT
IN WORDS.

Because of this, you must not only


consider your interpretation of the
word, but also the meaning the
communicator is trying to get
through
Did you know that “set” is the
word with the most
number of meanings?
Noun: 58
Verb: 126
Adjective: 10
3

Language follows a grammatical


structure.
4

Language is based on aural and


oral system.
5

Language can die and be


extinct.
SOME REASONS FOR THE
GROWTH AND DECLINE
OF LANGUAGE:

 Changing societal needs


 Erosion of old customs
 Call for elegance
An endangered language is a
language that is at risk of falling
out of use as its speakers die out or
shift to speaking another
language. Language loss occurs
when the language has no more
native speakers, and becomes a
"dead language".
EXAMPL
E
Ancient Greek slowly evolved
into modern Greek, and Latin
slowly evolved into modern
Italian
Yuchi (Euchee) is the language of
the Yuchi people living in the
southeastern United States,
including eastern Tennessee,
western Carolinas, northern Georgia
and Alabama, in the period of early
European colonization. However,
speakers of the language
Yuchiforcibly relocated to Oklahoma in
were
the early 19th century.
Sisters Maxine Wildcat
Barnett (left) and
Josephine Wildcat Bigler;
two of the final surviving
elderly speakers of Yuchi,
visiting their
grandmother’s grave in a
cemetery behindPickett in
Chapel Sapulpa,
Oklahoma. According to
the sisters, their
grandmother had insisted
that Yuchi be their native
language.
An extinct language is a
language that no longer has any
speakers, or that is no longer in
current use.
Dead languages are still known and
used in special contexts in written
form.
A dead language may remain in use for
scientific, legal, or ecclesiastical
functions. Old Church Slavonic,
Classical Armenian, Avestan, Coptic,
Biblical Hebrew, New Testament Greek,
Ge'ez, Ardhamagadhi, Pali, Sanskrit and
Latin are among the many dead
languages used as sacred languages.
TRIVIA
Ethnologue records 7,358 living
languages known. But on 2015- 05-
20, Ethnologue reported only 7,102
known living languages.
6

Language can be diverse.


CHARACTERISTICS
OF LANGUAGE
1

Language is dynamic.
WORD: STATIC

MEANING: DYNAMIC
2

Language has levels.


3

Language is creative and


unique.
4

Language is a means of
communication.
5

Language identifies
culture.
6

Language is arbitrary.
Languages are said to be arbitrary because
there is no necessary or natural relationship
between the words of a given language and
the concepts that they represent.
Also, languages are arbitrary because the
rules for the combination of signs in order to
produce complete thoughts are different
from one language to the other, and no set of
rules can claim to be the "right" one.

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