About the book: 2010 / Human language is the greatest gift of nature! To him we owe the opportunity to communicate, to transmit our thoughts at a distance. Thanks to language, we can read books written many centuries ago, which means we can use the knowledge accumulated by our ancestors and preserve our knowledge for future generations. Without language there would be no humanity! How many languages ​​are there on earth, how are they structured; how and according to what laws they change; why some of them are related and others are not; how exactly does the Russian language differ from English and other languages, and Chinese from Japanese; Why does a verb need mood and aspect, and a noun need cases? These and other questions are answered by modern linguistics, which the author of the book, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Plungyan, a famous linguist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, introduces to the reader in a popular and fascinating way..