Law of All Human Languages

My linguistic law is very simple, anyone who understand the combination of mathematics can understand it very well. Every day, what we are talking and listening is but communication by symbols. It is no different with what Morse code have done. So we just counting how many symbols are sending and receiving, then we may understand how the language works.

Linguistic law is a balance between easy to speak (expressing) and easy to remember (learning).only increase the number of sound’s species (SCAV) can get benefit of both side. For instance the compound word ‘pig-meat’ vs. individual word ‘pork’. Once we know what is pig and what is meat, don’t need any learning we know what pig-meat (compound word) is. But such word is too long for expressing, so the ancestor of English speaker invent (or introduce) a word ‘pork’. Repeated each of the words twenty times, you may realize the compound word double the time of the individual word. That is to say if a butcher repeat one thousand times the meaning of pork, using ‘pork’ will save much time and energy than using ‘pig-meat’. As thinking process is in fact speaking in mind, so the thinking speed of ‘pork’ will be faster than ‘pig-meat’. But using ‘pork’ you have to learn (remember) a new word ‘pork’, even if you know what ‘pig’ and ‘meat’ are. The current one million words of English are formed like this. The only reason that we has to learn so many words is to reduce the time and energy of expressing, without this burden. We only need to learn a handful basic words.

This phenomenon is happened in every language so I say the language law is a balance between easy to express and easy to memory. If the number of sound is unchanged, then easy to learn means shorten your life while easy to use means hard to learn.