How and when did all the languages in the world start?

Answer 1

Languages originated at the Tower of Babel:
Genesis 11
The Tower of Babel
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, [a] they found a plain in Shinar [b] and settled there.

3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel [c] —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Answer 2

Impossible to say. Entire civilizations have yet to be discovered. Spoken language doesnt fossilize or preserve. 'Language' in itself needs to be explained, does simple grunting count as a language, what about body movement? Many animals are able to communicate via sound, but when does sound communication become a language?

Answer 3

Every sign to be understood is made out of sound if not of gesture. Word started with sounds and you can still find it in many foreign languages that were derived from understanding or communicating through sounds. Different sounds helped to understand different meaning for each. It may have started from knowing or distinguishing the sounds every animals, nature and elements would emit. Man mimicking those sounds may have helped them developed their own signs to know there presence in the dark or from afar and to distinguish one from another. Even Penguins have each a unique sound for the mother to know her own baby in a large colony . A reason why different tribes have their own way to understand each other is probably for their own protection and recognition of their own member as in communicating with codes. Then invasions or people crossing paths may have formed them to agree on what is more easily understable or forced to be, until they have created a common code now called word. Like the Japanes word tsunami which is now included in the english dictionary as an accepted word other than tidal waves.

Answer 4

when a group of primates learned to associate differences in sounds uttered by their conspecifics to different objects, such as food, water, mother, hunt.

This has lead to an increasing complexity of the vocal apparatus and to a further development of the cortex that would control vocalisation and the interpretation of sounds.

Answer 5

The Tower of Babel.

Answer 6

the tower of babel. God confused the languages of man so that they wouldn't be able to understand eachother, each person spoke a new language.

Answer 7

it started with the universal language of loVe ...