2006-10-26 11:49:14 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
almost all spoken language is derived from Latin.... except Celtic... don't ask me why Celtic isn't. guess they wanted to be different. lol
2006-10-26 11:58:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sign Language.
2006-10-26 15:00:41 · answer #2 · answered by jaqui 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows.I think our first complex communications were probably based on signs, but that's not exactly a language you speak. Oral communication has an obvious advantage over visual communication in that it doesn't rely on being able to see the person you're communicating with, so it's an obviously beneficial development.
One experiment that was supposed to shed some light on the origin of language was conducted by a Pharaoh and related by Herodotus. He concluded that the first language was Phyrgian based on the first word spoken by children raised by deaf mutes.
The problem with those experiments is the assumption that children come pre-programmed to speak a specific language, a hypothesis that doesn't get many (if any) supporters these days.
Humans to seem to be programmed to learn language, but not any specific one - children will learn to speak any language they're exposed to fairly readily.
2006-10-28 10:23:16 · answer #3 · answered by lauriekins 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably people started forming vocabularies, and thus a language about 100,000 years ago, but writing was 'invented' only about 5,000 years ago, so it's not possible to know the answer. Besides it would have been lots of different words devised all over the place in isolation from each other, forming parts of incredibly basic languages.
2006-10-26 12:07:25 · answer #4 · answered by White_Clothes_Scare_Me 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sumerian, circa 4000BC in the cities of Ur, Uruk, etc. These cities are in Iraq/Iran nowadays. They also had the first religion Nephilim worship, upon which Judaism and Christianity are built.
The language of love was not invented till approx 750BC by Sappho, the female Greek Poet.
2006-10-26 12:05:58 · answer #5 · answered by SteveUK 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The language of love!
2006-10-26 12:01:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earliest written languages were Chinese and Sanskrit but I suspect that the very nature of language that has no written form means that there is unlikely to be any record of its existence.
2006-10-26 12:27:41 · answer #7 · answered by Clive 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
(proto) Indo-European is probably the earliest traceable SPOKEN language. It may, however, reflect the background of the researchers. Who knows what languages were lost, prior to this.
2006-10-26 15:27:51 · answer #8 · answered by fidget 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the oldest language on record is egyptian the 2nd is welsh (proud welsh man!!)
3rd is gaylic in ireland then hebrew which span out into latin then all the others started to role along
2006-10-26 23:48:45 · answer #9 · answered by inkthebrain 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
human language
2006-10-26 17:58:29 · answer #10 · answered by silvermane 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probably all grunts or something similar to it. No one really knows for sure, but that's what a lot of anthropologists theorize.
2006-10-26 11:59:13 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋