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The Differences and /or Similarities Between Human Language and Animal Language

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The differences and /or similarities between human language and animal language.

Languages are used as a communicable means for all of people and animal. If you make a comparison and contrast you will easy see these differences and similarities. Both human language and animal language are differences and similarities in many ways.

We have some similarities between human language and animal language. First of all, humans and animals have used languages to communicate in their society. For example, a person will say "hello" when he met a stranger. A dog waves its tail when it met relatives. In addition, body language is used to express their behavior and emotion by humans and animals. That is taken easy in communication such as shaking head, nodding head or shrugging shoulders, etc. With animals, it can imitate gesture of people to show its purpose.

Beside the similarities, language of humans and animals are many differences. Firstly, signal communication of people is sign and conventional meaning while its animal is sign. For example, when one person talks to someone, he can use his hand or his head together low or high his accent. Animals use few gestures to communicate with others. Secondly, humans are more signal quantity than animals. Because structure make sound between people and animal is different. Next, the signal meaning of human language and animal language is different. Human language is difficult while it is very simple in animals. Finally, signal communication of people is shown by writing. Thanks to this, humans can communicate and save their ideas time by time. Besides, animals only use a little tones and gestures to demonstrate their signal communication. The other word, signal of animals is innate ability while humans must learn in long time.

In short, there are many differences and similarities between human language and animal language. However, each other has got its own characteristic. Thanks to this, our social will be developed in the future.

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