Present by Bustan Kadir
The three ways that human communicate with each other are speech, writing, and gestures. Speech is arbitrary and segmentable. In human language, sounds are strung together to form meaning-bearing units. And these units are strung together to form sentences. This stringing together is accomplished according to a system of rules called grammar.
Writng systems are three basic types: Logographic, syllabic and alphabetic. In a logographic system, each symbol represents a word; in a syllabic system, each symbol represents a syllable; and in a alphabetic system, each symbol represents a sound.
The term gesture may include all forms of human communication that are neither speech nor writing. This include the subject matter of kinesics, paralanguage and proxemics and many other communications systems like Mazatecan whistling. Afican drumming, Indian sign language and sign language of the deaf.
Sources: L Ben Crane, Edward Yeager, Randal L Whitman: An Introduction To Linguistics (Toronto: Little Brown and Company) p.n. 26
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