How did all these languages spring up?

Question

I am confused by all the different languages that sprang up.
It seems there is information about europe and the speaking of Latin, and then all of the sudden all info I read just refers to languages like French, German, English, without detailing how those languages started.

Answer 1

Millions of years ago civilization started in the very hot zones. The people existed by gathering from the forests, hunting animals, and fishing. As the food supply became reduced to the point of starvation, small groups would separate and set up in far distant locations. Because of the lack of fast travel, and often through hostile territory, connection to the other groups was lost.
In time new words were used to describe various objects, actions, etc. After many centuries all similarity to the original language was lost.
An example can be the German language that was spoken when the first Germans settled in Pennsylvania, They spoke excellent German back in the sixteen hundreds, but had little connection with their origins. In a matter of just a couple of hundred years Pennsylvania-Dutch and German are almost two separate languages. They can understand each other, but with difficulty.
Now imagine this same situation, back in very primitive times, but instead of a couple of hundred years, extend it to a couple of thousand.

Answer 2

at one point lots of people spoke latin, because the roman empire spoke latin. and the empire was huge, so there were people all over the place speaking it. and since people were far away from each other, different dialects evolve, and people make up new words. so eventually these people are speaking differently enough that they are speaking different languages, like french and spanish.

english is a germanic language, not a romance language. so english, even though it has many words that are derived from latin words, uses a different sentence structure than romance languages. for example, germanic languages put the adjective before the noun, but romance languages like spanish or portugese do not.

Answer 3

During the Roman Empire, every one spoke Latin, or something resembling it. After the fading of the Roman administration in Europe, Spanish, French, and Italian evolved in those territories. North of the Rhine River, the Frankish language evolved into German. There were many sorts of Frankish and German. Today, people in Germany speak High German.

Answer 4

Presumably they all came from Sanskrit. Romance languages like French, German, Spanish Come mostly from Latin. Big dictionaries often have articles in the front of them telling you more than you ever wanted to know. And some things are uncertain.