2006-09-09 09:51:51 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Through human evolution, communication is one of the traits which helped mankind evolve to what he is today. All animals have some form of communication, oral or otherwise.
Humans communication became more complex as they started to inform each other to different things. For example:
Ug! Could mean yes. Then Nah! could mean no. As time went by the humans started creating different sounds for different things. Until we have the complexities of all the different languages today.
2006-09-13 03:34:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although many words and much language evolved over time, other words are coined everyday. You can make up one and see if it catches on. Before the invention of the telephone, there was no word for telephone. Also, word meanings evolve. Before the invention of computers, a computer was a person who did mathematical computations. If you're caveman (or woman) Zog, and you nomadically travel to a land where there are wooly mammoths, and there were no wooly mammoths where you came from, you might turn to your friend Og and say, "Hey, lets call those big hairy beasts with the long noses...um...Oh, I don't know...how about 'Snargwhompers'?" And Og might say, "No, they look more like 'Larrys' to me."
2006-09-09 10:55:14 · answer #2 · answered by Rico Toasterman JPA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends if you believe in evolution or creation. If we evolved from apes then I have no idea. If God created Adam and Eve, God gave the language of Aramaic. At the tower of Babel, God was angry at the people for trying to build a tower tall enough to reach Heaven that He gave them different tongues. Every person there began to speak in a different language and couldn't understand each other. So they fought and were unable to continue building together. They separated and moved away and lived in different lands. From that situation we know Hebrew came to be, then Latin, then Roman (this is the alphabet we use today but 4 letter were added to the original Roman alphabet).
Try omniglot.com
dictionary.co.il
milingua.com to learn more. Have fun learning! I find it fansinating, especially when you see the first know alphabet and see the forms change into structured letters over the centuries.
2006-09-09 10:03:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Words were created as a way for humans to interact with each other. As humans evolved from apes, so did their grunts evolve into speech. They didn't really 'come from' anywhere. They developed.
2006-09-09 09:58:16 · answer #4 · answered by mearsob 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Out of your mouth, your pen,your radio,your TV,other people,recordings, written down on/in something. Have I missed anything out?
2006-09-13 09:44:28 · answer #5 · answered by Veritas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's something i've always wanted to know.it's so weird how the word car could of been a cuss word...
2006-09-09 09:57:15 · answer #6 · answered by strangemcrperson17 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the heart lady, from the heart.
2006-09-09 11:39:00 · answer #7 · answered by amish-robot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keyboard
sorry, I am running out of points
2006-09-09 10:01:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lady Loz.................... Your and idiot, that is such a stupid question, words didn't 'come from' any where, they evolved as we did! Der!
2006-09-09 10:01:50 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
your mouth
2006-09-10 22:42:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋