Animal Communication versus Human Language

A language is a communication tool that is used as a means for exchanging thoughts

and ideas between people. Communication is one part of the language. Humans can produce
language, whereas the only animal able to communicate. Humans can speak because we have
brains that are different from other creatures. In this case, the anatomy of the human brain
and approximately the same animals, but humans have Celebrum Cortex which is larger than
the animals. This is what makes human beings can make things more complicated such as
learning a language, while the ability of animals is limited to mimic human speech. This is
what makes human beings can make things more complicated such as learning a language,
while the ability of animals is limited to mimic human speech.
There are several things that distinguish between languages with the actions of other
message delivery, such as crying babies, barking dogs, and the bee dance or commonly
known as the "waggle dance".

Duality of

Human
Animal
Distinctive sounds, called phonemes, Other
animals

do

Patterning

are arbitrary and have no meaning. communicate

arranging

by

not

But humans can string these sounds in arbitrary sounds, which limits
an infinite number of ways to create the number of messages they
Creativity

meaning via words and sentences.

New words can be invented easily.

Displacement

Humans

can

talk

about

can create.
Animals have to evolve in

order for their signs to change.

remote, Animal communication is

abstract, or imaginary things that context driventhey react to

aren't happening in their immediate stimuli, or indexes.
Interchangeability

environments.
Any gender of human can use the Certain
same languages.

animal

communications in the animal

world can only be used by one

Cultural

gender of that animal.

Humans acquire language culturally The
way
that
animals

Transmission

words must be learned.

communicate are biological, or

inborn.

Arbitrariness

Human language is symbolic, using a Animal communication is not

set number of sounds (phonemes) and symbolic, so it cannot preserve
characters (alphabet), which allows ideas of the past.
ideas to be recorded and preserved.
On a purely biological level, the Other animals have different

Biology

human voice box and tongue are very biological

structures,

which

unique, and are required to make the impact the way they make
Ambiguity

sounds we recognize as language.

sounds.
A word, or sign, can have several Every sign

Variety

meanings.
meaning.
Human language can arrange words Animals only have a limited

has

only

one

into an infinite number of ideas, number of combinations they

sometimes referred to as discrete can use to communicate.
infinity.
Conclusion:
The study of language as a communication tool includes two things, meaningful
gestures, and sounds. As most animals have meaningful gestures and sounds or voices, it is
questionable whether animals, like humans, also have language. It is clear that many animals
communicate with each other, but only with the human verbal communication are unique
characteristics.
As

God's

creatures,

human

and

animal

communication

systems

have

similarities and differences when studied more. equality of humans and animals alike have
tools speech to produce a sound that is the lung, larynx, and mouths, so that human and
animals are able to communicate with members of his group to have a means of speech
similar but with different proportion between humans and the animals were able to
communicate despite limited as an example of someone who have pets they met every day
and communicate so that pets are able to communicate, for example, when pets is to be called
and told what to do by humans.
Human language has seven characteristics. First, human languages have a system of
separate but interrelated on grammar, sound or gesture. Second, human languages allow
communicating with new things. Third, humans distinguish between the content of the
messages communicated and labels that represent the content of the message. Fourth, in
human communication, spoken language can be swapped with the meanings heard. Fifth,

human languages are used for special purposes; there is a "lie" deliberate behind what is
being communicated. Sixth, what is expressed can refer to the past and future. Seventh, a
human language learned by children from adults and passed down from generation to
generation.