how were words created? who thought of the word " I " and " you" and all the words im typing?

Answer 1

There is no one person who thought up the words we use. You learned all the words you know from your parents and friends and other people in your community, who in turn learned them from others, etc. If you go back far enough, you can see that the forms and sounds of words have changed, little by little, such that normally no group of people is aware of the changes at any one time, but after long enough the changes are apparent.

For example, several hundred years ago people pronounced the word 'I' as 'ee' (like 'eat' but without the t). If you go back further, you can find more and more different forms, until if you go back as far as we can, you get to a language called by linguists Proto-Indo-European, which was spoken about 5,000 years ago and is the ancestor of most languages spoken in Europe, including English. The Proto-Indo-European word for 'I' was 'ego'. Little by little, people pronounced it differently in every generation, until it became the modern English 'I'. Most likely, the Proto-Indo-European word goes back even further, but because it was so long ago and nobody wrote anything down, we don't know anything about it. Almost all words in English go back to Proto-Indo-European in some way.

Another way we get words is by borrowing from another language. For example, the word 'create' is borrowed from Latin, where one form of it is 'creatum'. Until recently, most educated English speakers knew Latin, so they would sometimes use Latin words in English, because it made them look educated, or because that was the first word they thought of, or something like that. Latin itself (including words like 'create') also comes from Proto-Indo-European, but the changes that gave rise to Latin were different than the changes that gave rise to English.

Answer 2

I can't answer that, but the book "The Unfolding of Language" by Guy Deutscher goes a little way toward answering it.

Basically, the first words were probably random, and then after that meanings got stretched (like "to face" from "a face") and pronunciations got changed.

Answer 3

my grandpa webster did that right after he invented the glue that sticks envelopes to seal properly.

Answer 4

We created.People like "me" and "you" ..