which is the first word in the world?

Question

Well, my wife shows me that there are two possible meanings, one more literal, and one historical...

Answer 1

According to the research of Dr. Barbara L. Davis, professor of communication sciences and disorders in the College of Communication, and Dr. Peter MacNeilage, professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts, baby-babbling patterns are common across many languages around the world. These early vocal patterns echo what speech may have been like in the earliest languages, suggesting there may have been a common origin for speech patterns before humans scattered and new languages and cultures were created thousands of years ago.

Davis came to this conclusion after capturing and analyzing the intricate sounds of babbling infants ranging in age from 6 to 18 months.

“Once a month for three years we’d visit the child’s home and record the babbling noises they made when interacting with their parents,” explains Davis. “A tiny microphone attached to their bib transmitted the sounds to a remote recording device. We wanted to get the microphone as close to the mouth as possible to pick up every sound.

“Hundreds of hours were spent recording every sound and transcribing them into phonetic symbols, which were analyzed on computer.

“In analyzing the babble recordings, we identified four sequences of sound patterns—each a consonant-vowel combination—that were common to baby babble and to first words across a number of different languages,” Davis says.

The four combinations are: lip consonants with vowels generated at the center of the mouth with a flattened tongue (such as “mama”); tongue-front consonants preceding vowels produced at the front of the mouth (such as “dada”); tongue-back consonants followed by back-of-the-mouth vowels (such as “gaga”); and lip consonant-vowel-tongue-front consonant sequence (such as “mad,” which has a lip consonant followed by a vowel, then a tongue-front consonant).

“We’ve discovered all four of these consonant-vowel combinations in our additional studies of Swedish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, French, Dutch, Berber (a language spoken in parts of North Africa, especially in Morocco and Algeria) and even in an Ecuadorian-Quichua environment,” Davis says.

“What’s even more intriguing,” she adds, “is that these same consonant-vowel combinations frequently appear in a list of 27 words proposed as being consistent with ancestral languages in different parts of the globe, suggesting that spoken language could have evolved from ‘baby babble.’

“In other words, we have proposed that speech evolved as a result of simple body mechanics, such as the opening and closing of the mouth and movement of the tongue,” says Davis, whose book, “Emergence of the Speech Production Capacity,” is due out late this year.

“The first words of human ancestors could have been like the first words of today’s infants,” she says. “Infants show us a picture of what initial speech patterns may have been like at their simplest, earliest stage. We propose that the first ancestral speakers were using basic mechanical patterns to form early spoken words.”

Answer 2

There was spoken language thousands of years before written language, so whatever it was, it's gotten lost in time. We know little about the language of prehistoric man; that's why we often name their cultures after the shape of their pottery or the places their remains were found. The names they used for themselves are lost, together with the rest of their language. So no one will ever know the first real word. My guess is it had something to do with food or sex or danger, which were probably some of the most important things on the minds of the primitive people in the time when animal sounds developed into speech.

The oldest written word may be some signs on pottery found in Harappa, Pakistan. See source for an article with a picture. Unfortunately it hasn't been translated, so no clue what it may mean!

Answer 3

I like so much poems by means of Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll. The Raven, Annabelle Lee, The Bells, Jabberwocky, The Walrus and the Carpenter. Some extra I like are "Im Nebel" by means of Hermann Hesse, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by means of Dylan Thomas, constituents I've learn of "Rubaiyat" by means of Omar Khayyam, plenty of Sylvia Plath's poems specifically "Lady Lazarus," and T S Eliot used to be high-quality too, and Homer, if you'll depend the ones.

Answer 4

The first written accounts were symbols standing for numbers. It is impossible to know the first spoken words.

Answer 5

I thought I heard it was "tik" meaning "one". Seems a bit of a stretch for anyone to claim to know that, but I didn't read the book so maybe I'm wrong.

Answer 6

Now It's English but before was French!!!

Answer 7

I think the first word would came from Indoeuropean language. Befor alla other laguages been created.

Answer 8

I don't know...but the first word of Mohamed was...Ikra...which means learn...
My first word ever spoken was: dad
My niece's first word was: good...

hope you find this interesting :)

Answer 9

Try google!

Answer 10

"Be"
when God firs started to creat things he just said "Be" and everything came into excistance.