Exploration of Language This program was developed by: Richard Effland Shereen Lerner Stephen Perkins David Turkon The development was partially funded by a Maricopa Community College District Instructional Technology Grant. All pictures used in this exercise have been obtained from the world wide web or scanned. Video clips are from the "Faces of Culture" series, number 204, with permission from Coastline Community College. If anyone has objections to the use of pictures within this exercise, please notify us and we will remove them. Information from various sources have been used and are cited in the "References" section (see below).

Why do we say: "I would love to record a record" and know how to say "record" differently?

Why do people say there is an Indo-European Language Family?

Is Klingon a language?

Why did the Navajo and Hopi languages prove to be the best military codes ever found during World War II?

Why do the Nuer have so many different words for the animal we describe as a cow?

Select a link below to explore how linguists are able to answer questions of this nature:

What is language?

How is language used in culture?

Historical Linguistics

References Cited