The study of language from an anthropological viewpoint is one of branch of modern anthropology. Anthropologists who specialize in linguistics today are concerned with relationship between language and cultural behavior.
They ask question about language from the point of view of the human species, rather than trying to describe the language or its structure. The central focus is still on people, and language is viewed as part of the social world.
One are of anthropological linguistics is the study of the origin of language. This could just as well be a question for physical anthropologists.
At present there is an important controversy over which of the fossil hominids was the first with the capacity for speech. Another area of interest is the role of language in social behavior.
This is a fairly new field known as sociolinguistics, and it is concerned with the way people use language people speak or various forms of it.
Anthropology Linguistics
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