A language is a dynamic set of visual, audio, or tangible symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon. Language is considered to be an exclusive human mode of communication. Although animals make use of quite sophisticated communicative systems, none of these are known to make use of all of the properties that are used to define a language.
Languages live, die, move from place to place, and change with time. Any language that ceases to change or develop is categorized as a dead language. Conversely, any language that is a living language, that is, it is in a continuous state of change, is known as a modern language. There are approximately 6,000 different languages currently in use, including sign languages, and many thousands more that are considered extinct.
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What do mean with the “elements used to manipulate them”?
And if you say that language is a exclusive human mode of communication, then i think you refer to language as a symbolic system, right? Because animals of course do have there language, but it is the question if the have a symbolic language and logical language.