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LANGUAGE by Mind Map: LANGUAGE

1. Verbal Language

1.1. Language family

1.1.1. Group of languages with a common ancestor

1.2. Individual language

1.2.1. A language as a whole from the same family

1.3. Dialect

1.3.1. Particulary way of using a language because of the region or the social aspects

1.4. Idiolect

1.4.1. A person's own personal language

1.5. Jargon

1.5.1. Language of people who work in a particular area or who have a common interest

1.6. Coloquialism

1.6.1. Informal expressions, "daily life language"

1.7. Slang

1.7.1. Rude and non-standard language

2. Arbitrary structured system of utterances-sounds, gestures, signs and movements, written symbols, morphemes, words and sentences used for human communication

3. Non-verbal Language

3.1. Written or Symbolic Language

3.1.1. Idiographic writing language

3.1.1.1. Uses ideograms to represent a word or concept

3.1.2. Syllabic writing language

3.1.2.1. Symbols that represents a syllable

3.1.3. Alphabetical writing language

3.1.3.1. Alphabetical symbols that represent consonant or vowel sound

4. Articulated Language

4.1. Writing system

4.2. based on the phonetic alphabet

4.3. designed utterances that record they sound

5. Language Inconsistencies

5.1. 1. Same letter combination can refer to different sounds

5.1.1. letter and tip steak and head

5.1.2. cerda y serda

5.2. 2. Same sound may have different letter combinations

5.2.1. women and busy

5.2.2. bosque y vaso

5.3. 3.Different dialects pronounce the same word differently

5.3.1. American or British for stop water