how did humans learn to talk?

Question

When did they first start to talk, ie in the past

Answer 1

Well, humans didn't just crawl out of their cave and went to Cambridge to study the literary English.

Humans are a social entity. Therefore, in order to fulfill a part of their psychological needs, they socialize with others.

This need, of socializing with others, gave birth to different ways of communication. At first, signs, sounds, gestures, and then drawings, more specific signs, more precise sounds and noises, which evolved into a rudimentary language, consisting of a few vowels and syllables, and eventually - words.

This new way of communication prove itself to be very fruitful and easy to use, and in time - much like men's discoveries and evolution up to the point of today's technology - talking became something normal, natural, almost instinctual.

Answer 2

Current theories in semiotics are that not only can humans talk, but all animals capable of producing sound can do so too in limited ways. It is well known that whales make calls and depending on the frequency and pitch of the sound these calls mean things to other whales, it is suspected that certain kinds of apes do this too and birds can whistle danger or food or mating calls to one another.
The human larynx is uniquely adapted to a very flexible pair of lips producing a wide range of sounds and it is thought that a proto-language may have been in the form of these sounds. It used to be a widely accepted belief in academic circles that an Indo-European tongue was developed first which mutated into several languages but now some theorists argue that several developed independently; This is supported by the fact that several words have no correlation in neighbouring languages. The English "tree" is in German Baum and in French arbre,"dog" is Hund and Chien,"Bird" is Vogel and Oiseau whilst sky is Himmel and ciel. Therefore these nouns(or their ancestors) must have been in use before they started to trade. The word "Cat" is Katze and Chat which suggests that it was imported by foreign traders. Similarly Lion, Lowen etc all come from Leo as the Romans were the earliest Europeans to have any real experience of them and thus need a name to describe them. Verbs do this too. Jump, Springen, Sauter. Throw, wurfen, voler.
So, no-one knows exactly how humans learned to talk but it is likely that this evolved from an agreement of the meaning of certain symbolic gestures and sounds and might have been an evolvement of picture-writing.

Answer 3

It is good that you have asked I was wishing to tell this to someone for ions now. We always thought it would be good to issue an early warning to fellow spirits, or would be human beings, of the perils of descending upon the face of this planet and live like earth dwellers through and through. But that bore no fruit at all – people when they think of becoming some people do what they like to do and listen to no one.

But the people with divined origins, you see, cannot exactly master earthly existence and the consequences are now hidden from no one. We all can see what has been happening ever since that fateful decision was made. Now its no good crying over spilt milk. Now se have to deal with the situation.

Sorry! And coming to answer your question, it was our urge to express our emotions that lead us to break the sacred silence of existence in existence. But to the worst of our disbelief and dismay our first warring call just hit a deaf wall of defiance and ignorance.

As a matter of fact warnings are still ringing out aloud all over the places all the time but the no one is ready pay any heed. Sometime I wonder what on earth we have a use of speech when no one is ready to listen.

Now this damn smoke is getting into my eyes and I can breath but do they listen? I hope you understand what I am talking about.

Answer 4

Humans learned to talk the same way they learned how to have sex and farm (agriclture). No one in specicfic had 2 teach them. Slang is not taught 2 a person, is it? [ like - wanna, gonna, chicks, babes, disks{Cd-Roms},whatever ] .how did u learn slag(someone gave u classes on slang or what...no insult intended) . So different cultures started making their own sounds, which can now be called as letters/words. These sounds were made by the common people in most cases, and the people used them so much, it became common (that sound) in those parts, and 2day it is a word/language These cultures developed and can 2day be called languages of different countries (english/french/arabic/hindi/german/russian,etc.) .
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Answer 5

I'm not sure all of them have. Some of the people I meet just sort of grunt at each other.

No seriously early man learned to talk simply because he could. Ancient early man did not have the physical ability for speech but when this evolved they were able to communicate. Early man communicated via cave paintings and possibly flutes. Man is programmed to pick up language easily and it would have been necessary to tell the others about tools etc. Have you ever seen a young child pick up a foreign language - it's instinctive.

Answer 6

This is only a guess but I think originally, words came about by people out hunting. The first crude attempts at the spoken word would be accompanied by a gesture, say pointing to the right or left. Eventually the gestures and words would also be used in more domestic situations, leading in time to whole sentences being spoken. But as I said, it’s only a guess.

Answer 7

May I direct you to, "Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language" by Robin Dunbar (pub. faber and faber: ISBN 0-571-17396-9). I'm not Robin or his publisher, just an interested linguist and I found in this book the best answer(s) to your question. It's complex and needs a book to answer rather than the limited space afforded here. After reading it you'll never look at a monkey grooming the same way again! (or a female gossiping!)

Answer 8

I've wondered this myself. How did birds learn to chirp or dolphins learn to squeak? If you put a newborn in a pack of wolves will he learn how to bark, howl, and wimper? Talking in my opinion is just noise we make and understand provided we know the language. Eavesdrop on a foreign conversation its intriguing to see two people interact and understanding nothing coming from their noise-holes.

Answer 9

the 1st human beings already knew the thank you to communicate. God spoke enormously with the two Adam and Eve interior the e book of Genesis. as a result, they did no longer would desire to "learn" to communicate. so some distance as their offspring became worried, their words would have been the comparable as any human toddler. specifically, the be conscious "no" is spoken earlier the different.

Answer 10

meerkats have 20 different calls for danger, each different depending on the predator. We maybe developed further because we were on the top of the food chain and had to talk about more things than danger, or maybe not.