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Human superiority lies in his unique endowment天赋—the ability to talk, or rather, to communicate by means of language. Language is a vehicle of power, for control, for creation. And for change. The study of human language is called linguistics. Language is the system of human communication which consists of the structured arrangement of sounds(or their written representation) into larger units, e.g. morphemes, words, sentences, utterances. Varieties of language: Any particular language is in essence a set of varieties. There are local varieties 区域变体–dialects and accents(the former differ from