biblical explanations not accepted..!!!
2006-11-21 01:23:00 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Because God confused the people at Babel. Damn, sorry that was a Biblical explanation.
oh.... by the way, learn English.
2006-11-21 01:25:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
People are genetically different, so once a language is developed (via the Tower of Babel...sorry that's how it was), different people would think of different ways to say certain things. The tower of babel didn't make every single language today. It just made people split up into people they could communicate with...to start off the spreading of the people throughout the earth.
That being said, you want an actual explanation that would work, and I'll give you one that fits my story as well. First off, people split up. They diverge and go their separate ways. That means that the people in North America had no way of communicating with people in Europe, nor the people in Europe had a way to communicate with people in Asia. Therefore the languages that were already in place were even more changed through the lack of influence of other places. See how even Americans' language differs from British, and we HAVE the ability to communicate with them. Imagine how different it would be if there was no British influence to our language! We'd start speaking in grunts and made up words.
2006-11-21 01:30:56 · answer #2 · answered by polevaulter1000 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Languages evolve from common experience and regional differences. Language is not a static thing, it is constantly changing and evolving. New words are created, new experiences come to light, and regions and subgroups develop their own dialects.
Take Australia, England, and the USA. All three countries are primarily English speaking, yet, over the course of 100-200 years, enormous differences have developed between the dialects of the three countries. Not just in terms of slang and vocabulary, there are real syntactic differences between the three. Even within the individual countries, there are enormous regional and cultural differences (take Ebonics in the USA for example).
If such change can occur over a hundred years, imagine the degree of change over thousands of years. Human kind has been 'speaking' for 100s of thousands of years, is it any surprise that we have diverged.
2006-11-21 01:50:22 · answer #3 · answered by Wundt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, the only explanation I know is from the Bible. I may be wasting my time to explain, but when the tower of Babel was built in the days before Christ, all people spoke one language. The people's motive for building the tower was to be able to reach God. He did not want this and destroyed the tower, sent the people fleeing in different direction, and, to guarantee that it did not reoccur, he confused their languages so that they spoke different tongues. Thus it has been, and thus it shall remain.
2006-11-21 01:31:27 · answer #4 · answered by Doug R 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Distance ant time. As people get separated and time goes by, languages become local. Think about Latin. For centuries it was the language of Europe with time, isolation and mixtures different languages emerged such as French. Spanish, Portuguese, Italian...
2006-11-21 03:10:37 · answer #5 · answered by sofista 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People have a tremendous creative and adaptive capacity. When in different situations, and when isolated by such things as water, mountains, and distance, peoples' language keeps changing in different ways. These combined changes amount to different degrees of linguistic morphing, evolving.
2006-11-21 01:26:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well you really can not ask that question now i mean this is something that happened in the history people found places make their own language and trust me everything happens for a reason and it's fun when you talk in your language in front of someone who can't understand you.
2006-11-21 01:36:23 · answer #7 · answered by mona z 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pls read genisis.. Sorry biblical explanation is a must !
2006-11-21 01:37:40 · answer #8 · answered by Smile- conquers the world 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
people came from diffrent places and since each went on their separate ways they somehow had to discover a way to communicate so they each made up a language and it continued on.(im just guessing if not according to bible)
2006-11-21 01:35:28 · answer #9 · answered by ilovemydogii 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because we all did not come together at once and the people over there talk different then we because they figured out how to communicate that a why and we talks this away
2006-11-21 02:32:11 · answer #10 · answered by henryredwons 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋