### language:

Body language
* Some body language is certainly genetically inherited and consistent among all humans.
* can communicate many ideas
  - give great insight to what an individual is thinking and feeling
  - have a great influence on our spoken language
  - speak louder than words
  - tell a lot about a person
* communicates an overall emotional tone.
* contributes to male sexiness.
* displays an individual's attitudes, emotions and feelings.
* expresses the thoughts of the mind and intentions of the heart.
* is also a big part of mating rituals
  - an important part to sending and receiving messages
  - more meaningful when several expressions take place at the same time
  - often as important as verbal and written words
  - one of several indicators of mood, meaning and motive
  - open to misinterpretation just as verbal communication is
  - part 'nature' and part 'nurture'
  - sometimes more eloquent than the spoken word
* is the gestures and mannerisms by which a person communicates to others
  - lie-detector of verbal language
  - number one connector between people
  - oldest language
  - way a dog's body looks and acts
* is used by the instructor to pass messages or to receive messages from students
  - when no words can express what the person is trying to communicate
  - very important in their culture
  - visual communication
* main method of communicatin for wolves.
* nonverbal means of communication.
* person's gestures, tone of voice, body posture, and facial expressions.
* powerful component of nonverbal communication
  - concept which successful people tend to understand well
* sends powerful messages to the person who is speaking.
* universal means of communicating.
* varies around the globe
  - to some degree among individuals and across cultures
* very important part of communication.

Chinese language
* All Chinese languages use tones to distinguish different words.
* has many dialects
  - square characters that consist of several strokes
* is language
  - located in chinas

Colloquial language
* communicates much better to lay people than does classical language.
* is covered in real-life conversations that take place in work and home settings.

Complex language
* More complex languages have longer grammars than do simple ones.
* is needed to express complex ideas.

Creole language
* Most creole languages have vocabularies derived from major European languages.
* Some creole languages seem to have retained at least remnants of their substrates' tone systems.

### language:

Different language
* Many different languages are spoken in Kenya.
  * Many different languages are spoken in Kenya. All school-going Kenyans are required to learn English. English is the language of instruction in the schools and institutions of higher learning.
* adapt foreign words so that they are pronounceable using familiar phonemes.
* are different ways of life, different modes of being
  - good at talking about different things
* can have different groupings for their phonemes.
* have different conventions about the layout of letters and reports.
* spell the way an animal sounds.
* take different forms.
* use different forms of written communication
  - sets of phonemes
+ Alphabetical order
  * It makes it easier to find a name or a title in the list. Sorting things in English is done using the Roman alphabet. Different languages have different rules for sorting.
+ Concept: Language :: Philosophy
  * Different terms can be used to identify the same concept. Car and Automobile are both terms for the same concept. Different languages have different terms for the same concept. This is what makes translation possible. The terms may be different in each language, but the concept is the same.