What is the starting point or the origin of all languages?

Question

As far as time wise what was the starting point or berth of all the languages we have today?

Answer 1

The earliest human language was in Africa about 100,000 years ago. We have, of course, no records of that language since writing was not invented for another 95,000 years.

And to correct errors in previous answers: Latin and Greek are NOT the ancestors of the world's languages. Latin is the ancestor of about 20 modern languages of Europe and Greek is just the ancestor of Modern Greek. Old Chinese is the ancestor of the half dozen Chinese languages. There are about 200 Indo-European languages and about 6000 languages in the world, so most of the world's languages are NOT Indo-European.

Answer 2

language developed over time to signify certain aspects of the culture by using sounds to make others aware of the same thing.
various groups developed similsr sounds to communicate similar ideas between them. specific languages developed over time in areas specific to those groups near to each o9ther, but far from others which developed their own sounds to descrihbe their ideas.

Answer 3

Grunt. Ugh. Ooooh.

I am being serious. If not for that, the human mind would not have developed linguistically through evolution as it did.

Answer 4

most languages came from indu-european. from that derives latin, greek, hindu, and from thoes derive english, german, french...

there are few languages that don't derive from this asiatic languages, african, hungaran to quote a few...

hope it helped

Answer 5

In the west, it's latin and Greek; in the east, it's Chinese.

Answer 6

some caveman probably handed another caveman a piece of meat and said "urgg", after that "urgg" probably meant "here you go" or something like that.

Answer 7

phoenician?

Answer 8

i guess latin and greek!