Where do Languages Come From?

GLogos

GLogos

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I came across this on the web today and I am stumped! I have no theory on this at allllll. Any ideas?

WE DON'T ASK OURSELVES where languages come from because they just seem to be there: French in France, English in England, Chinese in China, Japanese in Japan, and so forth. Yet if we go back only a few thousand years, none of these languages were spoken in their respective countries and indeed none of these languages existed anywhere in the world. Where did they all come from?
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Bayou bud

Bayou bud

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They were developed as social rise began in the first links between man and monkey. We began to normalize behaviors and seek feedback. This and the natural desire to connect with other creatures for purposes of mating, laying territory, protecting young...etc. led us to become much more social. This social growth was simply an evolved need to match our new capacity to reason and our other forms of higher thinking. With any tool of man, once one is made the technology of it and the development of it sky rockets. Cool little otters use rocks to break open their food. but they don't ride on the back of ostriches and speak english (note yet southpark). But we take something simple and develop it further, fast. Consider for an example technology... once the computer was made, look at the evolution of what it has become over one life time. Imagine something like language and communication over thousands of years.
 
shufflebotlmfao

shufflebotlmfao

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Bayou bud said:
They were developed as social rise began in the first links between man and monkey. We began to normalize behaviors and seek feedback. This and the natural desire to connect with other creatures for purposes of mating, laying territory, protecting young...etc. led us to become much more social. This social growth was simply an evolved need to match our new capacity to reason and our other forms of higher thinking. With any tool of man, once one is made the technology of it and the development of it sky rockets. Cool little otters use rocks to break open their food. but they don't ride on the back of ostriches and speak english (note yet southpark). But we take something simple and develop it further, fast. Consider for an example technology... once the computer was made, look at the evolution of what it has become over one life time. Imagine something like language and communication over thousands of years.
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well i like my answer better says it all but thanks for breaking it down for us:mrgreen:
 
Bayou bud

Bayou bud

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shufflebot, i dont get to use my near-useless BA in psych very often. just let me have this one haha
 
darkdestruction420

darkdestruction420

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they evolve from earlier languages. the roots of our modern languages lie in the past. in fact its rather fascinating if you look back over the years and the changes that came. so really they were spoken back then, just in much earlier forms.
 
cannabiscuit7

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languages started because of yes,a need to communicate,and over time as prehistoric man got smarter,languages advanced to get more specificic in meaning i think.I know writing started in Babylon.
 
MixedMelodyMindBender

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Where do languages come from? A need to communicate sounds logical. Why do we have a need to communicate? Prob something only god knows :) So does the answer of GOD....Just like all other things for those whom believe in a god. Other than that, I would go with the need to communicate as being the best answer at this time. Good thinking.,...its very good for one to question all things. Dont believe me or anyone for that matter, think for your self :)
 
DST

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Most modern languages ar ebased from LAtin and Germanic. As the Hun maruaded across Europe the Germanic people shifted which was why English ended up with massive Germanic influences. Modern ITalian, Spanish, French come from Latin mainly, and then you have the language where I came from, Dutch, which derived actually from the need to have a common language that people could read the bible in. So the Lowlands Dutch/Flemish bible was written and the language developed from there (Old Dutch)

It's amazing how close languages actually are. 100's of year ago an artist in Holland was communicating to a Priest in Scotland writing in different languages but understanding each other fully. A guy I knew investigated art work from the church in Scotland and discovered these old letters. When you hear dialect for example from some parts of Scotland, the pronounciation is nearly bang on with some words in Dutch for example. Likewise in English, so many bastardised words from Latin among other things.
Languages have many influences, if you listen to Afrikaans, some say that it is actualy more like Old Dutch, or Ship fairing Dutch, becuase most of the Dutch settlers would have been sea fairing folk, so their language for a Kitchen, was a Galley for example....it's these sutble differences that over many years create different languages.

Apologies for the diahorea fingers.....
 
MixedMelodyMindBender

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shufflebotlmfao said:
but those explanations are as fun as saying shit just happens?
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It also implies that most things in the confines of our universe are rather NON COMPLEX subjects.....RRRIIGHHT.

There are very many things in this galaxy that are not simple. History is a compile of complexities that aid confusion and clout greatly.

As much as man may want to think of spontanious creation as "shit happens" ( lazy-absent minded explaination perhaps?) I dont find much logic in very complex things all of a suddenly just happening, and most of the time at real coincendential times.
 
shufflebotlmfao

shufflebotlmfao

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MixedMelodyMindBender said:
It also implies that most things in the confines of our universe are rather NON COMPLEX subjects.....RRRIIGHHT.

There are very many things in this galaxy that are not simple. History is a compile of complexities that aid confusion and clout greatly.

As much as man may want to think of spontanious creation as "shit happens" ( lazy-absent minded explaination perhaps?) I dont find much logic in very complex things all of a suddenly just happening, and most of the time at real coincendential times.
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wow u lost me at hello
u guys get serious with this shit
 
GLogos

GLogos

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It is just interesting how many sooo different languages are, for example, in europe. Even more interesting is, how does one fathom a word? If you put five, never seen, objects in front of me, I would have a very hard time coming up with a new sound to describe them. And even if I did. That sound would have to come from some thought relating to those objects. So am I to assume that each sound of a word has something to do with that object? For example "apple". Where the heck did that sound come from? If I'm the first guy looking at an apple, how do I come up with the sound which is "apple"? The whole thing is mindblowing to me.
 
Bayou bud

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ted.com for anyone who is interested in random pretty fascinating knowledge. if you've seen it before, sorry. If you have never seen it, hopefully you enjoy.
 
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