WHAT IS NATURE OF LANGUAGE

CURRICULUM?
1. LANGUAGE IS A COMBINATION OF
Curriculum is a structured set SOUNDS- The words of
of intended learning outcomes a language are divisible
that come in the form of into sound sequences, and part
knowledge, skills and value; of language knowledge is an
affected by important factors understanding of the
of program philosophy, goals, particular sounds used in
objectives, and evaluation. a language, and the rules for
how they can be combined and
WHAT IS ordered.
2. WORDS HAVE MEANINGS-
LANGUAGE? MEANING ARE IN PEOPLE NOT IN
WORDS. Because of this, you
The method of human must not only consider your
communication, either spoken or interpretation of the word, but
written, consisting of the use of also the meaning the
words in a structured and communicator is trying to get
conventional way. through.
Language is a system of words or Did you know that “set” is the
signs that people use to express word with the most number of
thoughts and feelings to each other. meanings?
(merriam-webster.com) Noun: 58
Verb: 126
Language is a system of Adjective: 10
communication, a medium for 3. LANGUAGE FOLLOWS A
thought, and a social interaction. GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE.
- sentence structure is the
WHAT ARE THE NATURE AND arrangement of words, phrases, and
CHARACTERISTICS OF clauses in a sentence.
The grammatical function or meaning
LANGUAGE?
of a sentence is dependent on this
structural organization, which is also
NATURE called syntax or syntactic structure.
-basic constitution of a person or thing
In traditional grammar, the
CHARACTERISTICS four basic types of sentence
-A feature that helps to identify, tell structures are the simple sentence,
apart, or describe recognizably; a the compound sentence, the
distinguishing mark or trait. complex sentence, and the
compound-complex sentence. The
most common word order in English
sentences is Subject-Verb-Object
 (SVO). When reading a sentence,
we generally expect the first noun to
be the subject and the second noun
to be the object. This expectation
(which isn't always fulfilled) is known
in linguistics as the "canonical
sentence strategy."
4. LANGUAGE IS BASED ON
AURAL AND ORAL SYSTEM.
The two most basic language
skills, listening and speaking,
sound exactly alike when we
describe them as oral
and aural skills. “Aural” language,
of course, refers to language as
we hear it. “Oral” language is
what we say.
5. LANGUAGE CAN DIE AND BE
EXTINCT.
SOME REASONS FOR
THE GROWTH AND
DECLINE OF
LANGUAGE:
 Changing societal needs
 Erosion of old customs
 Call for elegance
An endangered language is a
language that is at risk of falling out of
use as its speakers die out or shift to
speaking another language. Language
loss occurs when the language has no
more native speakers, and becomes a
"dead language".
e.g. Ancient Greek slowly evolved
into modern Greek, and Latin
slowly evolved into modern Italian
Yuchi (Euchee) is the language of the Yuchi
people living in the southeastern United
States,
including eastern Tennessee,
western Carolinas, northern Georgia
and Alabama, in the period of early
European colonization. However,
speakers of the Yuchi language
were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma
in the early 19th century.
Sisters Maxine Wildcat
Barnett (left) and Josephine Wildcat
Bigler; two of the final surviving elderly
speakers of Yuchi, visiting their
grandmother’s grave in a cemetery
behind Pickett Chapel in Sapulpa,
Oklahoma. According to the sisters,
their grandmother had insisted that
Yuchi be their native language.
An extinct language is a language
that no longer has any speaker, that
is no longer in current use.
Dead languages are still known
and used in special contexts in
written form.
A dead language may remain in use
for scientific, legal, or ecclesiastical
functions. Old Church Slavonic,
Classical Armenian, Avestan, Coptic,
Biblical Hebrew, New Testament
Greek, Ge'ez, Ardhamagadhi, Pali,
Sanskrit and Latin are among the
many dead languages used as sacred
languages.
TRIVIA
Ethnologue records 7,358 living
languages known. But on 2015-05-
20, Ethnologue reported only 7,102
known living languages.
6. LANGUAGE CAN BE DIVERSE
6. LANGUAGE IS ARBITRARY-
Languages are said to be arbitrary
CHARACTERISTICS OF LANGUAGE because there is no necessary or
natural relationship between the
1. LANGUAGE IS DYNAMIC- it words of a given language and the
changes from time to time. concepts that they represent.
WORD: STATIC
MEANING: DYNAMIC Also, languages are arbitrary because
the rules for the combination of signs in
2. LANGUAGE HAS LEVELS- order to produce complete thoughts are
PHONETICS, PHONOLOGY different from one language to the other,
This is the level of sounds. ... and no set of rules can claim to be the
MORPHOLOGY This is "right" one.
the level of words and endings,
to put it in simplified terms...
Syntax This is the level of
sentences. ...
SEMANTICS This is the area of
meaning. ...
PRAGMATICS The concern here
is with the use of language in
specific situations.

3. LANGUAGE IS CREATIVE AND

UNIQUE- out of 26 alphabet letters we
can create so many many many many
many many pacquiao char WORDS.

4. LANGUAGE IS A MEANS OF
COMMUNICATION- alam mo na to
matanda ka na!!!

5. LANGUAGE IDENTIFIES
CULTURE- Language and culture are
intertwined. A
particular language usually points out to
a specific group of people. When you
interact with another language, it means
that you are also interacting with
the culture that speaks the language.
You cannot understand
one's culture without accessing
its language directly.