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2007-07-25 13:50:19 · 15 answers · asked by Pretty Girl! 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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They were not invented. They developed and evolved from the need to communicate, from sounds to words to phrases, sentences. Groups would mingle through conquest or migration and incorporated new combinations and meanings.
Written language brought rules, grammar, more sophistication and complexity.
Many languages are "dead languages" today, like Latin. We can read it and learn it but no modern country speaks Latin, just languages that evolved from it, like Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Rumanian.

2007-07-25 17:40:09 · answer #1 · answered by Letizia 6 · 0 0

G-d did. Remember the Tower of Babel. That is the answer because no one invented language. Language and communication evolved from simple sounds, and millions of behavioral interactions over long periods of time an social interaction. Don't think anyone can pin it down.

Actually there are some very interesting works on the English language--how it evolved and how it managed to survive with French, Danish, Norse and Latin influxes on the Island.

2007-07-25 21:51:37 · answer #2 · answered by Yahoo S 3 · 0 1

Good question. Umm.. .humans? Well scientist believe the first people talked in clicks similiar to the San languages in Africa. Scientists believe this because number one - the San have the oldest lineage of DNA for humans and two their language has the highest concentration of consonants. More than 100.

This variety points towards a single language source in these ancient people

2007-07-25 21:05:41 · answer #3 · answered by Roderick F 6 · 0 0

This was my favorite part of anthropolgy. Most people think that people originally communicated with sign language because early human's lacked pronounce vocal cords. No one's sure where it really started, but most think it was the germanic tribes in europe because the indo-european language family is one of the largest and is considered to be the most advanced. But no one really knows. Then there's always the tower of Babel.

2007-07-25 23:56:57 · answer #4 · answered by confused 3 · 0 0

People, societies, cultures --- take your pick.
People everywhere learned to communicate and are still learning so that we have new words being added to the English language because of the computer age.
Remember the question on 'Blog?'

2007-07-25 21:10:06 · answer #5 · answered by springday 4 · 0 0

Ralph the Linguist

Book of Ralph 11: 1 - 5 (Modern Ralph Version)
Modern Ralph Version (MRV)

Ralph 1And Ralph said, so be it, from now on there shall be langauges, and these languages shall be spoken and written.

Ralph 2And so they spoke to each other, each in his or her language, called the mother tongue, with variants called dialects, and deviances called slang.

Ralph 3And so it came to be, languages were, indeed, spoken by the sons and daughters of Ralph.

Ralph 4And they said to one another, languages are a tool, and our Provider Ralph, has given us the tool to communicate with, and to circulate the knowledge with.

Ralph 5And Ralph, praise be unto his tongue (PBUT) came down from slightly elevated podium, and declared: Natural Science, Individual Freedom, and Human Equality are the three main virtues with which I have given you languages to tell others with.

2007-07-26 00:31:24 · answer #6 · answered by WMD 7 · 0 1

Hmmm. Well, i find this, especially in light of the credibility of the remainder of the material on the site, quite plausible. http://www.keylonticdictionary.org/Words/A/Anuhazi%20Language.htm and http://www.keylonticdictionary.org/Words/L/Languages.htm

Btw, is it possible that "texasjewboy 12" , answer above, is in fact the intergalactically renowned Kinky F.?

2007-07-26 18:54:17 · answer #7 · answered by drakke1 6 · 0 0

If anyone says it is from the Tower of Babel and that God destroyed humanity's uniform language; then they are off their ******* nut.

2007-07-26 15:31:55 · answer #8 · answered by adam w 3 · 1 1

Different groups (people) originally evolved into dialects. Later, they evolved into separate languages.
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2007-07-26 03:45:21 · answer #9 · answered by . 6 · 0 1

God.

Genesis 11:1-9 (King James Version)
King James Version (KJV)

Genesis 11
1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

2007-07-25 20:57:31 · answer #10 · answered by littleredhen 3 · 2 2

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