{"id":6860,"date":"2021-09-24T04:13:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T04:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanita\/?p=6860"},"modified":"2021-09-24T04:15:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T04:15:25","slug":"what-is-a-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanita\/2021\/09\/24\/what-is-a-language\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a language?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-block-embed-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Martin Hilpert: What makes a language... a language?\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/martin_hilpert_what_makes_a_language_a_language\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Language is so special, without which there will be no communication.  In this video, Martin Hilbert distinguishes between a dialect and a language.  Instead of dialects, linguists prefer the term speech varieties.  Interestingly, he highlights the English varieties, which include Nigerian English and Malaysian English.  Each has its own unique characteristic and pronunciation.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language is so special, without which there will be no communication. In this video, Martin Hilbert distinguishes between a dialect and a language. Instead of dialects, linguists prefer the term speech varieties. Interestingly, he highlights the English varieties, which include Nigerian English and Malaysian English. Each has its own unique characteristic and pronunciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6860\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}