The Beauty of Languages

By Dode Sescri

All languages are beautiful for those that speak them and those that don’t understand, it's just like listening to another pair of gibberish parrots, there is no single person who can speak all the languages. That if it was possible would drive any human mad if they make it halfway, or even a quarter, the diversity of languages is what makes our world more exciting and more beautiful, it gives each person a sense of identity and a group to belong to, it gives each individual a unique view of life, when a village chief is asked by an explorer, "which language do you speak sire?" In reply he says, "I speak the language of the trees," "uh! What language is that?" if the explorer were to ask again, a translator then intervenes to explain to the explorer what the chief actually meant when he said he spoke the language of the trees, he's referring to the tribal languages in the jungle, those in the tropical rain-forest, he understands most of them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dode Sescri
• Release date: Sep 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370510344

Dode Sescri

Let me tell you a story, it goes like this..."Once upon a time there lived a rat and a cat, they were very good friends, they lived happily in their wooden shack, they shared everything between themselves, when one of them got some food, he would share it with the other. One day the rat did something very bad, he annoyed the cat who then out of rage slapped him very hard, the rat was seriously injured by the blow and then died. That’s the end of my story..."Yarn spinning is a skill that is deeply ingrained in our blood, we are descended from a long line of great story tellers, there is no story we don’t know how to tell, we always find time to amaze our audiences with great tales, both the contemporary and the legends of the old...My old time friends Jiji and Kaki are the two fellows that have greatly influenced my writing and life at large, when you hear them speak you are led to think they know everything, Jiji was very good at debates, I don’t remember a single day when he lost a contest. Kaki on the other hand was a great story teller, I don’t know where he got his stories from, we simply enjoyed them, we never cared about his sources either, he had lots of them too. One thing I loved about this little fellow was that I never got bored around him. He would flood your ears with thousands of stories at a time and there is no single moment when he will tell you the same story twice. Jiji was somehow a fanatic. When there is a discussion then individuals get stuck at a point where nobody has any further information, all are ignorant, that’s when he jumps onto the dance floor, claiming he knows it all, I have never met anyone who loved arguments more than Jiji, even a simple discussion he would turn it into an argument. He had a strange way of convincing people to believe his claims, even though you had with you solid facts that proved him otherwise, you still couldn’t beat him...

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Contention.

Languages as we know them are many and unevenly spread across the globe, some countries have more languages by a square area than others, some languages are very old while others are relatively young, few are written down and learned through regular academic programs, many more are not of any record set, which means they are only spoken by word of mouth, all in all each person wants  to learn a few languages if not many to expound on their knowledge, as part of a plan to visit a foreign nation or simply for fun, whatever the reasons may be.

This article does not teach readers how to learn a particular language, it only highlights the beauty of the complexity and the vastness of the number of languages spoken across the world.

Just remember that some of the most beautiful of languages are those that have not yet been put into writing.

Linguist-1- one word for many.

One beauty of language is that one word can be used to describe many things, conversely many words can also be used to describe the same thing. For instance when you say something is good or bad they will try to imagine the physical form/ appearance of that description. When you say something is good, what exactly do