Steemit Engagement Challenge || Season2, Week #2 || Language. How language connects an individual to his family, globe or specific society.? Entry by @fortwis09

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It is my pleasure to be here once again to participate in this week's engagement challenge, which is about languages, please read through.

What is meant by language? Define language in your own words.

Language can be defined as a system of communication used by a particular community or country.
It can also be defined as a method of human communication.

How language connects an individual to his family,glob or specific socieity.

Language is a unifying factor in every family or society. Language is the only thing that can ever make a family understand each other, if families use the same tongue and speak the same language, communication would be much easier.

In my family for example, we all come from the same tribe and speak the same language though in different ways, but we don't usually use our native language because not us all can speak it.

When we use the normal British English language we can hear and understand ourselves better.

When a country like America speaks the same language their country is unified and is hardly divided.

Which is yours mother tongue? and which languages ​​are spoken and understood in your home other than your mother tongue?

In my country there are over 570 languages that are spoken, but there are three unique languages that at least a citizen of my country can speak one of them. They are
Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba
And i speak Igbo which is my mother tongue, and i speak and hear it as well, though not all of it.
When my family Moved to Akwa IBom state, we started to learn the Ibibio and Efik language, which we have made progress with so far, but not really so much.
Where i presently love people mostly speak the Ibibio language, so we have to learn it.

How many languages ​​do you know and how did you learn more than one language?

I can say that i can speak two languages fluently, first is English language which came naturally to me because that was what I was brought up with, in school, at Hime my surroundings.
Second is piggin language which is also widely spoken across Nigeria, which is another form of English language but simplified.

Then I can speak the Igbo language as well but not really fluently as i speak others, i tend to hear and understand than speak the language.

I am also learning the Chinese and the Spanish language and i can say that i know the basics already.

I got the motivation to learn those new languages through movies and Spanish through the Steemit Blockchain.

In which language did you study in school to university and which language do you prefer in the education system in your country and why?

From my primary education to my junior secondary educational level, i have always been taught with the English language which is the reason I speak it with so much fluency and ease.

When we were in our homeland, they also taught the general Igbo language in school which is part of the reason I can hear and speak it.

But over here we are being taught the Ibibio language and even though I cannot speak it Fluently, i am still learning how to so so little by little.

How one language or more than one languages plays an important role in the development of society.?

Language is very important for the growth and development of the society, without the society having a general language, there will be no unity and peace because people will not be able to understand the language.

In the steemit platform there are two general languages that i know which are Spanish and English, and there are also many other languages, with the help of the translator steemit is able to cooperate together which makes it easier to analyze posts in the platform.

Take for example the bible example of a group of people working together to build a towers they were unified at first because the spoke the same language but when God confused their languages they had to stop the work because the could not understand each other.

In the same way, a language unifies a particular country or community.

How does culture relate to language?

Language and culture can never be separated from each other.
If you speak the language of where you come from, one can easily identify which tribe you come from.
Language identifies culture and like I say those two can never be separated.

Would you like to prefer writing in your own language at the time of writing posting on steemit, if yes why and if not why not?

Why language would no be easy to understand because it is less important in steemit.
Writing in my mother tongue would be a waste of time unlike English and Spanish.
Even though I can't really speak my language it will indeed make a sense to write and post it here but that would be when it becomes a usual language in steemit.

If you want to promote your language in the world, how will you do it? and if you already done, then how much success have you achieved?

I haven't really started to promote my language yet, but in order to so so i would need to make a post and put a video because you can't teach or without pronouncing or as it has many methods of pronouncing.

Thanks for going through my post.
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