Abstract:
Language is the most important means of communication
used among human beings. It is through language that
human beings share their ideas, emotions, beliefs and
feelings with each other. Though many other means of
communication are used among humans, they are not as
flexible, comprehensive, prefect or extensive as language.
All human beings are blessed with language and it is
considered the specific property of human beings. The
uniqueness of human language is evident when it is
compared with animal communication system which is not
well developed and has extremely limited function.
Nevertheless, defining ‘human language’ appears to be a
tough task and a good definition is expected to cover three
aspects of language, namely nature, structure and
function. This paper is an illustration of the characteristics
of human language with the intention of bringing into light
what makes it unique, ubiquitous and irreplaceable.
