This chapter tries to show why any decent linguist must invoke a fair dose of anthropology, and that, in order to achieve significant results, an anthropologist should harness the essentials of linguistics. It focuses on real linguistics, the cumulative paradigm in terms of which grammars are written, programs of language teaching expounded, and examines the social role of language. The main unit of every language is the clause. Every language has a number of word classes. There will be a number of small closed classes, pronoun and demonstrative in all languages, article, preposition, postposition in some. Every language has thousands of nouns; this is an open class to which new words are continually being added. A very important point is that word classes must be recognized separately for each language, based on internal grammatical criteria in that language.