You could use the term "Language" to describe what dogs do, or what chimpanzees do, or birds.

在此意义上,"语言"可以被用来描述,狗儿在干什么,黑猩猩在干什么,或是鸟儿在干什么

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For a language like English, that creature there is referred to with the morpheme "Dog."

对于像英语这样的语言,那种生物被表示为语素"狗"

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And then the American linguist would say, "Yeah. We speak to our dogs."

然后这些美国的语言学家会说,"是啊,我们会和我们的狗说话"

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