Have you ever wondered who invented words?

Question

I just want to know like how people were able to speak words. Who started everything, the languages and stuff. There are so many but who started it? I just don;t get it AT ALL. Some needs to tell me, if you don't know than nobody will :(

Answer 1

This question can't be answered in 25 words or less. The science of linguistics studies the origin of languages. There are many theories and they're all very complicated. The most common theory is that people first imitated the sounds of the animals, like the animals' warning and mating sounds and then language developed from there. But this is just the tip of the iceberg; thousands of books have been written on this subject.

Answer 2

Who Invented Words

Answer 3

Who Made Words

Answer 4

My granddaughter asked me this very question this morning. Mt answer was simple. It all started with cavemen and them grunting at each other. It evolved from there. Along the way people invented words as needed. Similar to Lewis and Clark naming trees and animals. The I told her it was a really good question and to ask her teacher what she thought about it. Hopefully the classroom will discuss this subject.

Answer 5

How do we use language? We use it to express ourselves through speech, to record our experiences or to invent and tell stories in writing. But before all that begins, before a word leaves our lips or a pen hits the page, we use language in our heads. This code we share is more than a “simple naming process.” It’s the means by which we form our thoughts and interpret the world around us.

One of the first people to articulate this concept was a Swiss linguist named Ferdinand de Saussure. Saussure wrote and taught in the late 1800s, and though he died in 1913, he remains one of our heroes here at Dictionary.com. Saussure understood that thinking about language was essentially thinking about thinking. He put language under his own theoretical microscope the way biologists study cells, looking at words as the building blocks of our thoughts.

The foundation of his project is breaking down our idea of a word into its component parts: the concept and the sound-image. Let’s do an experiment. First, picture a tree. It can be a tree you’ve climbed or a generic tree you’ve invented in your head. Regardless of the exact form, this abstract idea of a tree is a concept. Now picture the letters T-R-E-E. These four letters, when placed in this order, form the sound-image in that they can be spoken, written, or read. But without the imagined tree behind them, the letters are meaningless. Only by uniting concept and sound-image will “tree” evoke the mental picture you just conjured.

Saussure does not call this fusion of concept and sound-image a word, instead he calls it a sign, and it was through this code of signs that he built the discipline that’s given us so many tools to know our language: semiology. In Saussure’s words semiology is “a science that studies the life of signs within society,” named for the Greek word semeion, meaning “sign.”

In his book A Course in General Linguistics (the ground-breaking tome that this is coming from), Saussure replaces the term “concept” with “signified” (referring to that which is signified, i.e. the image of the tree) and “sound-image” with “signifier” (that which does the signifying, i.e. the written/spoken “tree”).

From there he drops a bomb that puts a new spin on the whole business: the signifier (written/spoken sound-image) is arbitrary. That’s right, according to Saussure the only function of the word “tree” is to be different from every other word. For all he cares it could be “blarg” as long as every speaker of a language recognizes that “blarg” signifies a leafy wooded plant.

Saussure points to the fact that onomatopoeias for the same sound vary greatly from language to language, and speakers are often conditioned by their language to perceive certain sounds as beautiful. (What words do English speakers find beautiful?)

This is the first in a series of three posts on the strange and wonderful world of semiology and Ferdinand de Saussure. We’ll tell a tale of love, loss, and forgiveness as we take Saussure’s “science of signs” into the real world.

Answer 6

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LOl, no I've never really thought about that until now! I *have* thought about what makes a swear word a swear word though? What's the difference between damn and darn? And what makes a word so bad? But imagining who actually came up with that stuff makes me laugh. xD

Answer 7

The Oxford English Dictionary is a pretty damn comprehensive dictionary, which includes the etymologies(origins) of words too. The English language is an Anglo-Frisian language, and you can find pretty much where every word was first used (in writing) in the OED.

Answer 8

Archaeologists thinks that first words already were used about 2 million years ago. Homo Habilis were our ancestors which had already developed Broca's area in the brains which neurologically affect vocal tract musculature and let them pronounce words.

Answer 9

LOl. The answer is Jehovah invented words and languages.
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Answer 10

Lewis and Clark set sail and when the Indians all were alive they had signs they carved or drew but Lewis and Clark made words like trees , animals , and people