Can apes learn language?

I can not speak - their mouth and throat are different from ours. But in the 1960s, some chimpanzees were taught to use sign language. One of them, Washoe seems to have learned 160 words. But the critics say that Washoe and other signature chimps simply copied their leader to earn a reward. Bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee seems to have stronger language ability. Using a special keyboard with symbols representing words, they indicate that Bonobo can learn some aspect of the language

Human beings are the only species with language. Of course, animals will communicate. Dolphins click on the underwater information, wolves cry, deer tails warn of danger, and some cockroaches can even learn sign language. However, these examples are far from the high level of oral communication that humans have found. This leads us to study linguistics, language and structure. Many scientists are focusing on understanding how languages ​​are developing, how they are currently changing, and what it will become. There are many aspects to the language studying, but today we are interested in morphology.

Currently, according to our detailed survey, monkey language learning is strictly limited. An ape can learn many isolated symbols (such as dogs, horses, other non-human species, etc.) but does not show clear evidence of conversational, semantic or syntactic language composition . Hearing impaired people use symbolic knowledge when they want to play, eat, drink, itch like actual beggars. More important sentences, such as sentence structure, emotional evidence, embarrassing feelings, etc., may simply be researchers' self-deception.

As gorillas and other apes acquire languages, they can more easily talk to different people. More than twenty people are using American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate with humans. Over the years, two western Roland gorillas have learned and used ASL to talk with dozens of different people. In fact, zoo caregivers have computer applications and courses to learn ASL from one of the gorillas; Yes, cocorigora is a teacher! Coincidentally, the coco male gorilla compatriots in the past 20 years were Ndume borrowed from the Cincinnati Zoo. Ndume moved with Coco, he was able to train with her, hoping that he will not be teaching ASL. This makes him more difficult to integrate into a new gorilla family. After all, he and Coco combined ASL and the specific culture of gorilla gesture language, and created their own special language.