Types of Languages

To talk about type of languages it is essential to part from the concept of language itself. As a way of summarazing his thinking, Gadamer, at least in the reading I made of his ideas, expresses that language is not a mere tool that is used to comprehend the world or send messages, rather, a way of accessing and creating the things that are intelligible. (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2022) In other words, it is a constant exchange of ideas and notions that are constantly transformed and configure as we interact with others and other things — essentially, a conversation.

Types of languages

As regarding to types of languages, it is vital to think that languages, as expressed before, are not tools, they are a way of assuming life, a way of thinking and proceeding. Take it from the huge differences many cultures and languages have. Germans are very straightforward because their culture have shaped their language in a way in which expressing possibilities is not only quite rare, but mostly impossible while, in English or Spanish, is more common to think and act based on hypothetical situations. 

Keeping this in mind, if languages are the ways we construct our thinking, and langaguages themselves are shaped and shape the culture they are involved in, it is mostly logical to think that having a certain way of language that builds the world and the environment our actions would be designed based on it. This is what Straajer's (2015) proposes. He establishes that, as there is a constant practice of language hygiene — which would be the prescriptive way of the language, understood as its norms, rules and forms, then, our actions and reactions to daily interactions would be driven by this way of thinking the language. Take it as a compliance, defiance or indifference towards the prescriptive language as a natural reaction of the normative efforts that society's built in.