Language as a Living Organism

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Language is a Living Organism “I saw a tree by the riverside one day as I walk along, straight as an arrow pointing to the sky it was growing tall and strong. How do you grow so tall and strong?” I said to the riverside tree. This is the song that my tree friend sang to me. “I have roots going down to the waters, leave going to the sunshine and the fruits I bear give the sign of life in me.” As we start studying language, we learn to see it not only as a set of words that we use to communicate with others, but also as something that was born, started growing with time, in some cases gave birth to different dialects or experienced death. In this case we can say that language has its own life. For example, let’s compare it with a tree. If we want to have a plant we need to see what kind of environment we have, if the land is fertile, if there’ll be enough water to take care of it, and when we know all of these we plant the seed. After a seed has been planted and the land has been taken care of, a new plant will be born. As any living organism this plant is unique and shows it either in its shape, color, height or uses. When we try to understand how language develops, we probably see ourselves in a situation where we question the development of language as to how it began and when will it end. It is a bit difficult to pinpoint a specific development but based on Biblical references it began with the creator. In the Christian’s holy book – the Bible, it stated in Genesis 1 that God said, “Let us make man”. This can be interpreted as verbal communication. Pre-historic findings also showed that early primitive man communicated by symbols. Other reasons language grows is that more people started using it, making it something important and difficult to live without. But this plant, as the first one, will be unique showing that even though they both have a relation

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