“Of all mankind’s creations, language must take the pride of place”, says Guy Deutscher, professor of languages at the University of Manchester. How does language make the human race different to any other animal? There are similarities in that both humans and animals communicate with one another, whether that be through sounds, signs, or even body language. However, there are differences that can be found between communicating and actually having a language, as well as a physical uniqueness that makes language possible for human kind. Language has enabled us, as a race, to reach the top of the food chain and to learn collectively, but there are also some consequences of these great achievements. Every animal in existence communicates with their species. Even bacteria communicate with one another by secreting distinctive organic molecules, for which they have specialized receptors to receive the information. It is a necessity of life; birds use their calls and songs as instinctive responses to danger, nesting, flocking, mating and establishing territory. Research into the way that honeybees communicate with one another does mimic the concept of syntax however it is only used for information imperative to their survival. So in these ways human language is similar to the communication of animals. In comparison, there are some crucial differences that sets human language apart from any other language. Let’s assume that a person is capable of producing sentences up to twenty words long. Therefore the number of sentences that a speaker can deal with, in principle, is at least 10ˆ20(a hundred million trillion). At a rate of five seconds a sentence, a person would need a childhood of about a hundred trillion years to memorise them all. This concept is what makes humans different from other animal species; human languages contain tens of thousands of arbitrary learned symbols, which are mainly words. We do not just regurgitate these words and formulas either, we arrange sentence