Malvi language profie
Name: Abhay Malviya Roll no.11009
"Language and Religion"
Introduction
Language is the human ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, and a language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics.
A religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Religion may or may not have God or deities. What makes religion an organized practice is the scripture of that particular religion. Otherwise religion is a personal matter to be think of as it solely depends on individual.
According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world. Estimates of the number of languages in the world vary between 6,000 and 7,000. However, any precise estimate depends on a partly arbitrary distinction between languages and dialects. Whereas in South Asia total number of languages can be estimated not less than 300.
Relationship
Language and religion are related in a way the religion in not about the ‘Belief’ but the narrative or the information about the culture which is passed by one generation to other via either oral communication or in symbolically. Thus religion rely on language heavily, whether on a particular one language is a question which will be tried to be analyzed in this assignment.
To literally see the relationship between the language and religion we must first understand the basics of how human learn language and how individual relate to a Religion. Language Acquisition: It is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate. The capacity to successfully use language requires one to acquire a range of tools including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and an extensive vocabulary. Linguists like ‘Noam Chomsky’ have focused on the hugely complex nature of human grammars, the
"Language and Religion"
Introduction
Language is the human ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, and a language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics.
A religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. Religion may or may not have God or deities. What makes religion an organized practice is the scripture of that particular religion. Otherwise religion is a personal matter to be think of as it solely depends on individual.
According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world. Estimates of the number of languages in the world vary between 6,000 and 7,000. However, any precise estimate depends on a partly arbitrary distinction between languages and dialects. Whereas in South Asia total number of languages can be estimated not less than 300.
Relationship
Language and religion are related in a way the religion in not about the ‘Belief’ but the narrative or the information about the culture which is passed by one generation to other via either oral communication or in symbolically. Thus religion rely on language heavily, whether on a particular one language is a question which will be tried to be analyzed in this assignment.
To literally see the relationship between the language and religion we must first understand the basics of how human learn language and how individual relate to a Religion. Language Acquisition: It is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate. The capacity to successfully use language requires one to acquire a range of tools including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and an extensive vocabulary. Linguists like ‘Noam Chomsky’ have focused on the hugely complex nature of human grammars, the
References: http://translationjournal.net/journal/18bible.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion Deacon T. (1997). The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language with the Human Brain. Allen Lane: The Penguin Press. Chomsky N. (1972). Language and Mind. Pantheon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_India