We know there are so many languages around the world the earth is over 4 billion years old and Human civilization is about 100,000 Thousand years old.
Of all the existing living things Humans are the Only ones that are capable to communicate with a very Complicated use of different words and sentences.
I wanna know how languages developed into the language we use today?
2006-10-11 11:59:03 · 6 answers · asked by Warhorse X 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Forget the Tower of Babel myth. Forget the evolving brain story (the brain has shown no evolution in the last 100,000 years).
The first language in humans about 100,000 years ago quickly became just as complex as any human language extant today. But all languages are constantly changing. As the earliest population of modern humans split into different communities, their language immediately began to change in different ways in the different communities. Over time these differences accumulated until they could no longer understand one another. Voilà--two languages, neither one of which is exactly like the ancestor language. Multiply this process over 100,000 years over the face of the entire planet and that is how we wind up with today's 6,000 or so different languages.
An excellent recent book on the subject is: Guy Deutscher. 2005. "The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention" (New York: Metropolitan Books)
2006-10-11 13:23:08 · answer #1 · answered by Taivo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never believe what you read. Languages developed through the centuries as man developed its brain, and as the brain got bigger new technology came with it. This technology needed new words and expressions and that's how languages grew. The Basque, Welsh, and Georgean languages are believed to be the oldest in the world.
2006-10-11 19:16:36 · answer #2 · answered by tiger 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity to reach the heavens. Because the hearts of men were said to be inherently evil and disobedient, they were striving to make a name for themselves instead of worshipping the God who created them. Because of this open defiance, God stopped their efforts by confusing languages so that no one could understand each other. As a result, they could no longer communicate and the work was halted. The builders were then scattered to different parts of Earth. This story is used to explain the existence of many different languages and races.
2006-10-11 19:01:55 · answer #3 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It all started in Babel. The king wanted his people to build a tower to reach Heaven; God confounded the language of the builders who all began speaking different 'BABBLES'
All languages are connected; they all came from the same source.
2006-10-11 19:04:36 · answer #4 · answered by Roxton P 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you read about the Tower of Babel in the Old Testament, people tried to build a structure to reach heaven, and they were arrogant, so God spread them all over the world and made them speak all different languages. That's where different languages came from.
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2006-10-11 19:01:26 · answer #5 · answered by PJ 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
how did language started? are you sure you want to know?
2006-10-11 20:40:11 · answer #6 · answered by sdkfhjn 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋