Verbal Language and Anthropology
Donate nowWhy has humanity developed language with words and not limited itself to expressing through gestures and physical behavior, like animals? The use of words characterizes humans in their deepest reality: it shows their need to express and communicate their “boundless” inner world. With their verbal language, always new and “alive,” they aim to transcend mere physical sensation and express the intellectual and spiritual dimension with which they live: they want both to manifest themselves and their uniqueness and to communicate their understanding of every other reality. This extraordinary ability, which also shapes their brain, cannot be provided except by the presence of the human spirit. If humans did not have a spiritual soul, could they possess the “word” ability that characterizes them?
