It is called language to the verbal or gestural communication system through which the inhabitants of a given community will communicate and understand.
If this did not exist in the form of a convention, it would be practically impossible for people to exchange ideas, feelings and even emotions. Speech is the most traditional way in which language is expressed and, as we said above, it is not reduced to oral expression, but can also be transmitted through writing and gestural or sign language, this being The latter is the most used by those who have a communication disability, as is the case with deaf-mutes, for example.
The languages are based on alphabets, which in the case of Latin has been sustained in what we know as the alphabet, and from there languages such as Spanish, Italian, French and even English emerge. However, the latter has Saxon roots, and for this reason it sounds very different from the others named. From the Cyrillic alphabet, languages such as Azeri, Turkish or Russian emerge.
The apprehension of a language, of course, will not be an easy task, since it implies the learning of phonetic, morphological, syntactic, semantic, prosodic rules, among other aspects, inasmuch as and due to this complication that it normally entails, it is advised that the best time to learn another language is during childhood, approximately after the age of five, since it will be there when the brain and the muscles of the face, which are vital when it comes to acquiring good pronunciation, are in full development and they are more permeable to face the learning of a language than when it is done at the age of fifty.
To learn a language, or to consult words from one in particular, bilingual dictionaries are used, where we can find, for example, how a certain word is said in English, or the other way around: what this or that English word means in Spanish. Direct contact with natives of those countries or people who have an advanced command of the language will help us instead to learn the pronunciation, tune and idioms of the language.
Although there are many languages in the world, among the most universal and known by all, this means that they are also spoken and taught not only in their countries of origin, they are: the English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian. For example, it is very common that although in Spain the national language is Spanish, there are many people who will also know how to speak and understand English. Other emerging languages globally are Chinese, Japanese, and German. This situation occurs thanks to the fact that in schools and universities, in addition to having a subject for teaching one's own language, the teaching of a second language is also usually implemented. Even, in many parts of the world, there are also specialized institutes in which people can improve even more in learning another language and get to teach it, for example.
There are approximately 7,000 languages around the world. Many, right? In addition to the official languages of each country, this number also takes into account those dialects or indigenous languages that may be found. Dialects are, in general, deformations of a language that is spoken within a country, but that has different pronunciations in each region / state. For example, the Italian language is clearly the official language of Italy, but within the territory we can find dialects such as Neapolitan, Piedmontese, Marcheggiano or Siciliano. On the other hand, indigenous languages are those that we find in general in countries of America, Africa, Asia or Oceania and belong to the ancestral languages of tribes or communities that have lived or still live in those territories. For example, the Quechua language in Peru or the Mapuche in Argentina.
It often happens that, by appropriation or also in migrant communities, certain words can be deformed or adapted. Take for example the word "chat", which derives from the verb chat in English, which means something like chat or talk. Or also "google" that derives from Google, which in addition to being the name of the famous search engine, means precisely to search or explore. This cross between languages is often called Spanglish (a mixture of Spanish and English), but nevertheless, the same example can be found among other languages such as what we know by the name of Portuñol, which would be the mixture of Portuguese and Spanish.
