Why do we all speak different languages?

Question

This has always baffled me why are there so many different languages and who learnt to speak why is a bed caled a bed why is a cat called a cat does any one no please

Answer 1

you have two ways of looking at this ...
biblically and non biblically , so i will give you both

biblically it is said that God gave us different languages at the towers of Babel

non biblically .... when the world spilt millions of years ago , we all went different ways and learned to speak differently in the small communities we belonged to

Answer 2

When people become separated, language changes. Simple fact. Over a period of many generations, words for items change. This would be expecially true when spoken language is first being developed.

If you believe, as I do, that modern humans began on one continent and spread out from there, possibly before complex spoken language was developed, it only makes sense that they would speak differently from region to region.

Answer 3

Yep. Languages developed because the human populations were seperated. As complex language didnt' always exist each language developed in isolation. Later in human history, through conquest languages were fused together. Look at western Europe, especially England.

Answer 4

You can find that answer in the bible. If you have a bible, open this Genesis 11. It's about the tower of babel and how humans were divided by their languange. Also about the name thing you can also find it in Genesis 2 : 19 where it explains that Adam named all the animals. Hope that helps u..

Answer 5

ok. here is an exciting question. the respond, so far, are additionally, however somewhat sarcastic. :) :) in case you're relating 2 canines from separate worldwide places getting jointly, than i'd say, they might understand one yet another merely effective. God blended up human language on the tower of Babel, no longer canines language. yet, in case you're relating a canines with the ability to understand a human from a distinctive u . s . a ., than confident, it would have issues undersatnding the human. canines study the language they are observed in. in case you talk english, your canines will study english instructions. in case you assert stay! In english and he's accustomed to that be conscious, he will obey. in case you assert it in french he won't understand you (until eventually you do hand indicators besides. canines are much extra attentive to physique language.) additionally, cutting-edge learn practice that canines can understand as much as two hundred words, which ranks their intellegence impressive close to dolphins and chimps, so confident, canines can understand plenty extra effective than we are giving them credit for.

Answer 6

Old Testament
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Old Testment, Genesis, 11. 1

Hindu legend
There grew in the centre of the earth the wonderful world tree, or knowledge tree. It was so tall that it reached almost to heaven. It said in its heart, "I shall hold my head in heaven and spread my branches over all the earth, and gather all men together under my shadow, and protect them, and prevent them from separating." But Brahma, to punish the pride of the tree, cut off its branches and cast them down on the earth, when they sprang up as wata trees, and made differences of belief and speech and customs to prevail on the earth, to disperse men upon its surface.

Hindu legend, from Wayne L. Allison, In The Beginning Was The Word: (The Genesis of Language)
North American Indians
The Kaska Indians narrate that "a great darkness came on, and high winds which drove the vessels hither and thither. The people became separated. Some were driven away. . . . Long afterwards, when in their wanderings they met people from another place, they spoke different languages, and could not understand one another".
"Kaska Tales", collected by James A. Teit, Journal of American Folklore, No. 30 (1917), p.442, from I. Velikowsky, In the Beginning, annotated by Jan Sammer.
Tikuna of the Upper Amazon
A common belief in the primitive world is that all peoples were once a single tribe, living together and speaking the same language. But then something happened (among the Tikuna of the Upper Amazon it was the eating of two hummingbird eggs), and thereafter people began to speak different languages, split into separate groups, and dispersed far and wide.
From Robert L. Carneiro, Origin Myths, American Museum of Natural History, Publication of the Natural Center for Science Education

Aborigines of Central America
And as men were thereafter multiplying they constructed a very high and strong Zacualli, which means "a very high tower" in order to protect themselves when again the second world should be destroyed. At the crucial moment their languages were changed, and as they did not understand one another, they went into different parts of the world.

Answer 7

Wherever human beings evolved the sounds used by each group meant different things.
Some 'root' words are fundamentally the same
The word for Mother, for example, is mostly similar sounding for Latin based and Sanskrit based languages.

Answer 8

Pangel has the right answers. It was at the time of the Tower of Babel where all the languages got mixed up. Until this day we have mixed alnguages cos of that!

Answer 9

in the bible it talks about an event where men were building a tower so high it would reach the heavens so to stop them he made them speak in different langauges.look at these scriptures. palms 83:18 , mattew 11:25.hope that you find your answer.