2006-10-01 22:19:53 · 15 answers · asked by k3mpi3 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Kinda like the Chinese name they're kids.
They get on a roof top and drop and bunch of pans at one time. They name the child whatever sound they hear....
ching..chang,chong,clang,cling...
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2006-10-01 22:29:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
When the first humans with a language started to split up and to leave their original territory, the first dialect will have evolveld, it happens all the time. If the separation was permanent, within a few generations the difference will have been pronounced, and in time there would be a strong enough difference to classify the dialect as a separate language.
This has been going on throughout the millenia, it is a relatively fast process, and we can only get a detailed picture from languages that have been written in ancient time already, a favourite example is Latin which has evolved into ten or more different modern languages.
2006-10-02 06:09:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is quite surprising, but the first correct answer is from Athene noctua. All the others are crap. The first modern human language was spoken in Africa about 100,000 years ago (it was NOT Swahili) by the first fully modern humans. As the first modern humans spread out, that language diverged into different dialects and then into different languages. Over the next 100 millennia language continued to divide and diversity until we have the 6000 or so modern languages of today. That original language is long gone except as it lives in its descendants of today.
2006-10-02 08:16:58 · answer #3 · answered by Taivo 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Being simple minded I believe in the Biblical answer in the book of Genesis because it is so simple to understand!
2014-04-26 19:09:00 · answer #4 · answered by Gary 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, according to some studies, it has been referenced to an ancient dialect of Swahili near the African/Middle Eastern countries of Ethiopia, Somalia, Egypt, and some parts of Saudi Arabia and/or Israel. Some call it the root dialect of all dialects. Languages such as Ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, and Sumerian are believed to be in common with this "root dialect". However, that language has never been found to be written down, but the commonalities of Ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, and Sumerian suggest this.
2006-10-02 05:26:45 · answer #5 · answered by Danielle 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Taivo and athene Noctua are correct, and may I say it, I am absolutely shocked about the other answers. How low is the education level in the US?
My 12-year-old nephew would have come up with better (more realistic) answers than you bible-believers.
*shakes head* I am simply shocked!
2006-10-02 13:52:55 · answer #6 · answered by albgardis T 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Read the book of Genesis... babalonians building a tower to heaven.., God confused the language so they could not work together in the building.. God knew if the tower had keep being contrusted they wouldve killed themselves as it grew taller into the sky...' so God changed their languages to keep them from being able to communicate..ie; hand me a hammer ? kdsjr dsiifhe
jheife ...HUH ???? not to understand baffled them.and the building stopped! the men climed down and their lives were saved. languages / ie; "Tongues" were created.
Speaking in tongues' ..is a spiritual / supernatural gift to communicate in a foreign language without prior knowledge or training in that language.
2006-10-02 05:36:32 · answer #7 · answered by billybadazz 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
You might say that different languages sprang up from the isolation from different cultures and necessity to communicate with each other.
2006-10-02 05:25:02 · answer #8 · answered by merlinmx5 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Well, we get the word 'babble' from the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel. The story is that mankind thought they were such hot stuff, that they were going to build a tower to the heavens. And God said "I don't think so!" and scrambled their language into lots of languages, to confuse their efforts to work together on this project of pridefulness.
It's a fun theory to picture, don't you think?
2006-10-02 05:25:08 · answer #9 · answered by ladyfraser04 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋
The Tower Of Babel?
2006-10-02 05:22:17 · answer #10 · answered by starrynight1 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Which idiot said Greek/Latin? I think you should go back to middle school. Where do you people come up with that crap?
2006-10-02 12:33:44 · answer #11 · answered by Brian S 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋