People have discovered/invented, scientificly/historically. We're adam/eve's, How came all different languages

Question

I believe and know that there are so many different languages all over the world and communication has to be streamlined, like as to use a certain language in order to understand each other. Having a central rise How is it that there are so many different languages and how long did it take to come up with such a great difference in our languages. Who has an idea please, will there be upcoming of more languages?

Answer 1

Naturally, you ask a complex question that could take at least one book to answer.

However, briefly, many anthropologists do believe that language evolved gradually in humans. Neantherthal man could probably speak a little but not as well as modern humans. A few years ago, "Discovery Magazine" had an article about how Neanderthal Man probably sounded like the Swedish baker in "The Muppets" based on what we know about the shape of his larynx.

Modern speech began in Africa about 250,000 years ago with a single woman some anthropologists call "Eve." She had the right genes for true language and passed these genes on to her descendents which include all modern humans everywhere in the world today.

As certain bands and tribes began to separate in Africa and move around the world, the original proto-human language spoken in Eve's time began to change and today you have nearly 7,000 different languages,

Nevertheless, the tendancy has been for languages to disaapear. Even the approximately 7,000 different languages today is probably down from a figure of about 12,000 different languages 10,000 years ago. According to a recent report in the "L.A. Times," one language in the world becomes extinct about every 14 days.

New languages will emerge in the future but not at the same rate as they did in the past. Some linguists claim, for instance, that Spanish in the Western Hemisphere is beginning to split into two new languages. One running along an axis from Mexico City to Chicago and another along an axis running from Caracas to Puerto Rico to New York.

Also, if Germany had not been reunited in 1990, the German of East Germany probably would have eventually become as different from the German of West Germany as Danish. However, this is one case where a potential for language change was averted.

Answer 2

Languages always change so where a group of people break away and you get two groups in different places after a while since different languages change in different ways you get different languages. So French and Italian were once the same language, Latin. No-one really knows how long people have been talking but it could be about 80,000 years and that would give long enough to produce the number of languages spoken now. There is a tendency now for the number of languages to decrease as a lot of languages are becoming extinct all the time. The only thing I would say which would produce more languages would be if there was a collapse in world communications so that people who can no longer communicate could do so no longer.

Answer 3

There is a 'language tree' which shows how languages developed from earlier, root language.

For instance English is a Germanic language. Yes, there are lots of 'Latin' based words in English, however the sentence structure is Germanic.

French, Spanish, Portugese, Italian ect....these are Latin based languages.

As I mentioned earlier, the main difference in this day and age is sentence structure and conjugation of verbs.

There was at one time a 'proto-european' language that branched off into many others: Germanic (which eventually gave way to Old German, High German, Old English, Middle English, Danish, and others) and Celtic Languages (Brythonic tounges such as Breton (Gaulish), Cornish, Welsh and also Gaelic tounges such as Irish, Scot and Manx).

I'm sure simlar branches exist in other, more isolated cultures (from Europe) for instance, Native American Languages, Mayan, Incan ect.

As cultures developed trade with one another, words would get passed on and adopted. This will continue to happen until the end of time.

Answer 4

From what I remember in religion class(way back when), a very large group of people got together to build a building/tower tall enough to get to Heaven. Jesus didn't like the idea and the tower came down. When the tower came down he gave everyone different languages so that they would not be able to communicate to each other and try that again. Like I said, that's what I remember. I could be wrong.

Answer 5

Keeping your biblical approach, did you forget Babel's Tower?

Answer 6

WHO KNOWS THERE IS CLINGON WHICH IS A LANGUAGE FROM STAR TREK SO ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE....MOST OF OUR LANGUAGES ARE PRETTY MUCH LINKED...LIKE LEARN ENGLISH THEN SPANISH AND FROM THERE IT IS EASY TO LEARN FRENCH AND ITALIAN AND FROM THERE GERMAN....ETC...SO IM SURE THESE LANGUAGES STARTED OFF AS PIGLATIN BUT THEY WERE A BIT MORE CONSTRUCTIVE BACK THEN