how did all the different languages evolve, was there once one comman language?

Answer 1

Anthropologists generally agree that humans had a single point of origin in Eastern Africa before migrating to the North and East. But the most recent evidence points towards the first migration out of Africa having taken place long before humans had the ability to speak. It is now generally thought that humans first developed the power of speech about 30,000 years ago. The most persuasive evidence of this comes from archaeological finds of jewellery across western continental Europe - made according to standardised patterns - which clearly demonstrate that by then, man had developed an organised form of society which enabled specialisation, and had developed the communication skills necessary to train people to make things in a particular way, to source materials and to transport and trade the product. This would not have been possible without language.

But by then, man had scattered to the four winds. I am therefore convinced - and this is currently the consensus of opinion among linguists - that the first ancestors of today's language groups evolved independently. The Proto-Indo-European language ("PIE") is the common ancestor of nearly all the languages of Europe and the Indian sub-continent (the most notable exceptions in Europe are Basque, which pre-dates the arrival of Indo-European languages in Europe, and the Finno-Ugric group which includes Finnish and Hungarian). The classical languages - Sanskrit, Greek and Latin - are all derived from PIE. English, Russian, Italian, Albanian, Urdu and Farsi are some of the hundreds of descendant languages which have eventually evolved from from PIE.

Languages like Hebrew (or Aramaic as it was at the time the Bible was written), Arabic and Berber belong to the Semitic group - these languages are not Indo-European. English and Hebrew do not have a common point of origin. The world's languages are classified into several dozen of these language groups, and it is most likely that the majority of these groups had independent points of origin.

This account is drastically simplified ... the matter is very complex and in some respects the story remains untold.

Answer 2

"You say that we evolve to evolve and larger swimsuit our atmosphere" That's now not anything a hypothetical "we" are pronouncing. That's simply the best way it's. "having exceptional languages could handiest create a massive barrier and could don't have any advantages." That's your assumption. I could disagree. For example, it possibly priceless in a few instances to grasp whether or not the individual you're speaking with is out of your possess tribe or that of anybody else. Also, language over the a while has various more often than not through definition, comfortably on the grounds that this is a sort of conversation that's always being reinvented. Many natural expressions in these days could be very complicated to anybody 50 years in the past, for example. "If we're "getting larger" then we will have to all be talking one language." Evolution does now not suggest that we have become "larger" in any goal experience. That is a natural false impression. And once more, why could everybody talking the equal language be of evolutionary significance? How does that aid you go to your genes? Also, I'm "talking" (writing) English proper now. That's now not my first language.

Answer 3

It is still a mystery. Theoretically, all languages of the world should be related to each other directly or indirectly since all human beings on the earth today come from a common homo sapiens ancestor who lived somewhere in Africa about 35,000 years ago.

Some linguists believe that all of the earliest human languages had clicking sounds in them which are still found today in some African languages, espectially the Bushmen (Khoi) of South Africa. The sound tsk tsk or tch tch to express disapproval is about all that remains of these ancient clicking sounds in English.

The linguists who believe that all human languages sprang from a common ancestor are called "globalists." A leading globalist who has written much on the subject is Merritt Ruhlen. I recommend reading anything you can find in libraries or bookstores by him. He will answer, from his perspective, most of what you are asking.

Answer 4

I don't think it's possible to answer your question given the current state of knowledge of linguistics. My opinion would be that there is no reason to think that language wasn't developed multiple times in different ways throughout human history.

Answer 5

Actually, there once was a common language. That was Hebrew. All of the different languages started when all men on earth decided to build a tower to the heavens and our Creator decided to confuse them by making different languages. God decided that they couldn't work together and that they need to be confused with different languages.

Answer 6

yeap hebrew until those jackos tried to build a tower to heaven. and GOD made them speak different language so they couldn't communicate anymore

Answer 7

First answer is correct you can find this acount in the Bible In Genesis chapter 11.