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Our first language began to appear over 1 million years ago. It arose out of the sounds we made to one another while hunting together or working in food gathering. Our first sounds were like all animals. We made certain noises to warn of danger, for example. Eventually we recognized the same sounds for objects. We then put these words together and in time created other sounds that made sense of those connections, like fire hot became fire is hot. It was a slow process but the growing size of our brain capacity and the development of our vocal cords made it possible.

2006-12-18 20:40:04 · answer #1 · answered by Isis 7 · 1 0

Language, as we know it as humans, is one of the most complicated things our brains do. It also requires changes to the vocal cords and mouth coordination that are not found in other mammals. Language, in terms of communication between individuals, exists to a greater or lesser extent in a large portion of our fellow creatures. One of the questions that is hoped to be answered by the Neanderthal Genome Project is whether they had the mutations necessary for complex speech. (ref. 1).

Something changed that made modern humans able to build complex societies and occupy nearly all of the world. Speech and complex language may have been that thing, but the truth is lost in the distant past. We now know the specific locations of the mutations that make speech possible from a mechanical standpoint, and we know that our living relatives do not have that mutation, but the quest now is to find out if we are truly unique through time.

So, IF language is the key to human success, and if it is unique to Homo Sapiens and not our extinct relatives, then it came out of Africa along with our ancestors.

2006-12-19 05:46:23 · answer #2 · answered by gordon B 3 · 0 0

It wasn`t an actual place the language was created, for example people from England speak English, Japan speaks Japanese. Rather your question refers to the development of the human brain in which case allowed the transfer of information through a vocal or written system.

2006-12-18 20:37:55 · answer #3 · answered by philmasen 2 · 0 0

It is therorized that the first language was Indo-european. This woudl have been a blending of the european languages and the non-european languages that are spoken today. I had a professor while I was in college, Professor Motzus from the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY who was trying to recreate this language. Esentially what he would do is list all the many different ways each language would have to say a word. from this chart, a pattern would become evident. It is amazing how similar seemingly different languages really are.

2006-12-18 20:45:55 · answer #4 · answered by daddyspanksalot 5 · 1 0

no one knows they can only speculate and make educated theories
if they would have been able to write as soon as they could speak maybe they would have left us a letter.
up is up because we say it is if we had pointed up and said that direction is called pu then now we'd say
what's puuu!!!

2006-12-18 20:46:56 · answer #5 · answered by RWIZ 3 · 1 0

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