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It is sometimes said: animals don't speak, because they

lack
haven't

the ˇnecessary intellectual capacities. And this means: ‘they don't think, therefore they don't speak’. But the fact is that they just don't speak. Or

rather
t

: they don't use language. (If we disregard except the most primitive forms of language.)

Giving orders
Commanding

, askingˇ questions,

describing
recounting

, prattling, belong to our natural history just as walking, eating, drinking, playing do. (It makes no difference here whether the speaking is ˇdone with the mouth or ˇdone with the hand.)

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.

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