Lynguistykon: Language: Difference between revisions

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Language is how living beings communicate, combining words and usually intonations to record or transfer meaning. How those words and intonations present themselves varies very widely among species, cultures, and even individuals. Language can be audibly, visually, or otherwise sensorily communicated. Language can be the means by which a living being communicates internally, as well.

Words

A word is a recognizable communication holding an idea/meaning, that can thereby be transferred. Communication usually involves many words put together to communicate a complete idea or multiple ideas together. A morpheme is likewise a recognizable communication holding an idea/meaning that can thereby be transferred, but it is the smallest unit of language that still does so. So a single morpheme is already a word, but a word can also be composed of multiple morphemes. Similarly, letters may already essentially serve as morphemes/words with basic identifiable meanings that stand on their own (which can then be combined with other letters to present deeper or altered meanings), but they can also only serve as building blocks and convey sufficient meaning combined together with other letters to form morphemes/words.

In a loose sense, depending on the language:

Some letters may be morphemes
All morphemes are words (though in many languages, not all morphemes are used standalone as words due to linguistic conventions).
Not all words are morphemes.

Intonation

Intonation is attached to letters/words to either deeper or alter their meaning.

Writing

Writing is the recording of language visually in a way that meaning can be facilely retrieved from later. Many different systems of writing exist for languages, but the Lynguistykon and other written works related to Somewhere Else usually use a uniform system of writing in general in order to be accessible.

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 ===Words===
-'''Words''' are ideas presented in a recognizable communication that can thereby be transferred. Communication usually but not always involves many words put together to communicate a complete idea or multiple ideas together. '''Letters''' (considered either the simplest words and/or the building blocks to words) serve a similar role within communication and the boundary between letter and word is not always clear. In some languages even basic letters already do serve essentially as words, with recorded meanings that stand on their own that can then be combined with other letters to present either deeper or altered meanings. In others, letters can generally only convey sufficient meaning ("make sense") combined together with other letters to form words.
+A '''word''' is a recognizable communication holding an idea/meaning, that can thereby be transferred. Communication usually involves many words put together to communicate a complete idea or multiple ideas together. A '''morpheme''' is likewise a recognizable communication holding an idea/meaning that can thereby be transferred, but it is the smallest unit of language that still does so. So a single morpheme is already a word, but a word can also be composed of multiple morphemes. Similarly, '''letters''' may already essentially serve as morphemes/words with basic identifiable meanings that stand on their own (which can then be combined with other letters to present deeper or altered meanings), but they can also only serve as building blocks and convey ''sufficient'' meaning combined together with other letters to form morphemes/words.
+In a loose sense, depending on the language:
+* Some letters may be morphemes
+* All morphemes are words (though in many languages, not all morphemes are used standalone as words due to linguistic conventions).
+* Not all words are morphemes.
 ===Intonation===