The first human language was spoken about 100,000 years ago in Africa. That language broke up into dialects and eventually over time into all the human languages of the world today.
2006-11-27 09:21:39
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answered by Taivo 7
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Are you joking?
No one knows what the world's first language was. It may have been nothing more than grunts, until one day someone put two grunts together and someone else corrected him and said the two grunts should have been the other way around. (just kidding)
But people have been speaking for far longer than they have been writing, and there is no record of what the original language might have been. Whatever it was, it would have been pretty basic, and have grown gradually as people added more sounds to it. It isn't as though everyone woke up one morning and said,"I think I'll start using Urdu today". So the answer to your question is, there is no answer.
Correction -- sign language was probably the earliest form of communication, but I don't know if you consider making gestures a language or not. But there is likely some reason why we wave our hands around when we talk, and it may well be genetic.
2006-11-27 06:15:11
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answered by old lady 7
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If you mean the most spoken language of the modern world, the answer is Mandarin, with English in second. This is simply by virtue that there are over one billion Chinese speakers, as compared to the rest of the world. English has only 500 million speakers.
If you mean the first spoken language, no one knows for sure, but it was probably a tribal language among a group of Australopithicenes.
2006-11-27 06:22:32
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answered by whtknt 4
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Nobody really knows for sure what the world's first language was. Many scientists think it was Sanskrit, Basques (from Andorra and the Pyrenees) claim it was Basque, some Welsh people claim that Welsh is either the world's first language or the language spoken in Heaven, and J.R.R. Tolkien said it was Elvish (which resembles both Sanskrit and Welsh). Take your pick.
2006-11-27 06:17:58
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answered by telcontar328 2
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All animal species are still struggling with their first sign or body language.
Somehow human beings came ahead of them, how and why. Do they have simply bigger brains or a different kind of brain or brain cells ?
I would think that first language would have to be sign or body language - as it appears human beings learnt a lot from the animals and nature surrounding them.
2006-11-27 07:20:30
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answered by Anonymous
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First language of the world is Pali
Later came Sanskrit, Greek and Latin
2006-11-27 21:31:23
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answered by Santhosh S 5
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A newly born's cry. That is what the first language of any human born is.
2006-11-27 20:50:10
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answered by Anonymous
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Body language...the language of love!
2006-11-27 06:07:54
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answered by mel_23_ashmo 2
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Smile
2006-11-27 10:19:46
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answered by Konfuzius 3
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Aramaic
2006-11-27 06:20:33
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answered by fartboy_x 2
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