What was the first language upon the earth.?

Question

Is it still around.? Or part of it.?

Answer 1

The earliest human language was spoken about 100,000 years ago in Africa. In one sense it is still around since all modern human languages evolved from it.

Answer 2

Communication and language are different things. Language allows us to communicate in novel and creative ways using symbols (words or signs). It would be impossible to say which language was first, as groups of people isolated from each other gradually developed their own tongues. Some say that language began after a sudden increase in the size of the human brain. As that mutation spread, every small group of people would have developed it's own more or less sophisticated language. Now, groups that were closer together would have had languages that were more similar than groups that were far apart partly because of the amount of contact between them. The best records of language, of course, are written records. While we might be able to determine that the oldest written language is Sumerian, the language would have had its origins long before it was written down. At the time at which it was written down, it was undoubtedly very different from the languages from which it gradually evolved over, perhaps, millennia. Unfortunately, languages don't have DNA, so we can't figure out the origin of language in the way we might determine the origin of man.

Answer 3

I will answer your question in that said language.

Unk a gawa ahh ahhh haaa naa naaa abonea nantakka

It loosely translates to...

It probably had no written language to go with it if it were the first language so how in the hell COULD anyone KNOW that beyond supposition and guesswork at best?

Answer 4

In a recent study of organutan communication involving humans moving their heads to gesture, it was shown that the most likely first form of communication was the movement of the head.

This was likely followed by hand gestures and later grunts. Those in turn evolved into language, as we know it, over thousands of years.

Answer 5

"Gruntish."

I find fragments of it when I greet people on the street. I've codified a number of them. For example, there is

1) The rad nack "Grunt and Scowl,"

2) The teenage boyhood "Schwagger,"

3) The junior high school girl "tsch" (followed by strong eye rolls to the back of the head).

4) The elder driver "Geek-Gawk" (accompanied frequently with drool, followed by a fender bender.)

There all fairly common.

Answer 6

good question. I'd say Hebrew, then when the people of the earth started building the Tower of Babel God confused everyone and gave them separate languages so they could stop building. And God's chosen people continued to speak Hebrew. God Bless.

Answer 7

other monkey species show us historical development of our languages . all other answers seem to explain part of correct answer. In my view you should see things from historical & evolutionary point of things . Nothing stay as it is ,languages included

Answer 8

Swahili

Answer 9

I don't know....they probably came up with some form of sign language.

Answer 10

sign language(body language, like a wave for come here or a nod for yes) and grunts