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The Complexity of Human Languages

Linguist Michael Han from Saarland University explains why human languages are complex systems despite their differences. There are about 7,000 languages in the world, from those on the brink of extinction to the most widely spoken.


The Complexity of Human Languages

Languages convey meaning by combining individual words into phrases and then organizing them into sentences. Despite their many differences, they all serve the same fundamental purpose. Michael Han, a professor of computational linguistics at Saarland University in Germany, explains: «The logical question that arises here is: why don't human languages encode information uniformly?». All languages are remarkably complex systems. Each of their levels carries its own meaning, ultimately allowing people to share ideas in a way that can be clearly understood. According to «Sci-Tech Daily», there are about 7,000 languages spoken in the world, from those on the brink of extinction with only a few speakers, to widely used languages like Chinese, English, Spanish, and Hindi, spoken by billions. It is on this question that Dr.

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