ABSTRACT
Language is something we use to communicate. Many living things communicate with each other. For example, bees communicate the location of rich sources of pollen to other inhabitants of their hive with an elaborate ‘dance’. Is this dance something we should call language? I think not, and prefer to reserve the term ‘language’ for the system of communication used by humans. Human language is similar to bee dancing in that both are tools of communication, but in other respects they are very different.
