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== Description (Specifications) ==
 
== Description (Specifications) ==
Language is one of the key characteristics of sophontdom. Through the facility of language, sophonts gain advantages over less sophisticated lifeforms.
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Language is one of the key characteristics of sophontdom. Through the facility of language, sophonts gain advantages over less sophisticated lifeforms. Not only can language-speaking sophonts able to better coordinate and collaborate with one another, but language enables the use of technology.
  
 
== History & Background (Dossier) ==
 
== History & Background (Dossier) ==

Revision as of 18:44, 23 December 2016

Language is any communicative medium used by species of higher intelligence to communicate amongst themselves and develop abstract ideas and philosophies about the environment and universe that surrounds them.

  • Linguistic term
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Description (Specifications)

Language is one of the key characteristics of sophontdom. Through the facility of language, sophonts gain advantages over less sophisticated lifeforms. Not only can language-speaking sophonts able to better coordinate and collaborate with one another, but language enables the use of technology.

History & Background (Dossier)

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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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