where did all the languages in the world come from,how did they start & what was the 1st language?

Answer 1

I think at first it was sounds and noises, eventually these developed into more specific sounds until they became words and then sentences and then paragraphs, etc. Then people split into different parts of the world and over time their uni-language {made up word ;)} turned into dialects and later evolved into separate languages.
This is funny: " Alexander Gross argues that speech has evolved to replace spray."
It's from this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language

Answer 2

It's currently unknown whether there was some one "original" language, or whether several languages arose/were developed independently.

The reason there are different languages is that people lived in isolation from other linguistic groups.

You're getting into deep anthropological territory here.

Trouble is, there are no living witnesses, and spoken long pre-dated written language, so, there are no records, either.

All we can do is speculate.

We have language because our brains have specialized structures for learning and using it.

We do have records of languages coming into being (recently). It's the young who create new languages, if they have none to grow up into, as it were.

When a lot of people deaf from birth grow up near each other, they create new (sign) language (happened in France and Nicaragua).

Also, when little un's grow up where there is no one established language (as when there are different languages, and the grown-ups use a pidgin or proto-language cobbled together from their various languages), those children will create a language from that pidgin. A full language, with syntax, and rules (they tend to be regular and systematic -- English isn't because it arose based on a bunch of different languages, processed in isolated groups that were inconsistent with each other).

There are also cases of twins developing their own languages.

And there's the case of Boonville (California) -- which probably isn't a true language, but an elaborate slang, that was originally unintelligible to the adults. There may still be speakers of -- I think it was called something like Boontong or Boontlang or Boontling -- maybe it was Boontling. It lasted several generations.

It started as a way to communicate without the grown-ups knowing what you were saying (the little scamps!). It caught on and was passed down.

But as for what the first language(s?) was like, or when it began to be spoken, or how, it's all speculation.

Chimps and other critters have "languages" -- in a very loose sense of the word -- so we inherited primitive verbal communication.

But real language?

Fascinating topic, isn't it?

Frustrating that we can't really know.

Answer 3

We will never truly know what the first language was because they never even had a name to call that language. It probably began in Africa. The oldest, most primitive language on Earth today is that of the K!ung and San bushmen in Africa. They still use clicks and other sounds which almost all other languages have lost as we 'evolved'.
And then, as we left Africa and inhabited other parts of the world, the languages evolved further and in isolation, began to sound more different. However, this explains why regions geographically closer to each other, usually have languages which share a same origin. There is a kind of family tree as far as languages are concerned and it really does span across the globe and even takes into account major human migrations and colonizations etc.

Answer 4

Have you ever seen monkeys communicate??? gestures, ugh ugh, scratch scratch??? well, that one is the 1st language. Some specific gestures and sounds came to take a meaning, and from there there has been a continous evolution of the communication.

It is a fact that languages evolve. Take Ancient English, take Middle English... we have texts dating back since then, and they sound like a foreigh tongue to a native English speaker today - and we are talking about only a few hundreds years, a dozen or so generations... how about the 10'000 years or more? the evolution would be tremendous, and very differentiated because of the lack of communication between remote areas.

While today there are reportedly more than 5000 different languages, there are broad similarities among most, and that bring scientists to think that there may have been a common language originally, or at least several common trees.

Answer 5

Well, language started when someone opened thier mouth to convey an idea, uttered a sound and another person actually 'got it'.

The first language was Major Gibberish, spoke and developed by the Gibber people who inhabited what is now Northern Africa.

Answer 6

If you mean ALL languages, then that would include body language, which is used by humans as well as other animals. The most primitive animals to use body language would be arthropods such as ants, bees, termites, and other social insects.

Answer 7

God created all of the different languages because all the people were working together to try and build a tower to heaven. He caused different languages to fall upon sets of people, causing confusion and babbling, thus the story of 'The Tower of Babel'.

Answer 8

the first language in the word was the Sumerians language

Answer 9

they came from the ant farm in missouri......from there people started speaking russian, then arabic, so on and so forth.

Answer 10

Clicks and pops.