History of Language.

When did human started talking? That´s a vert interesting question, that take us back to our ancestors. Now I invite you, to learn more about the History of Language, with some videos and questions below.

                                                Video 1:

1) Why is it said that people in East Africa develop more than the rest?
 -  The reason that people in East Africa develop more than the rest, is because they develop a better language.


2) What happened to the earlier language on the Earth?
 -Through time, the ancients languages have been erased and historians confirm that their trace were lost.


3) Accoring to Dr. Johanna Nichols, what were the first utterances made by Humans?
 - The first utterances consist of things that were transactionally between calls and words. Maybe that calls appear against the need to talk or to take the attention of others.





Video 2


 1. What is the biblical story of "the Tower of Babel"?
Is a story that tell, when people organized to make a big tower to reach the sky. God saw ambition in the people, so He punished them making that each one speak a different language, so they could not understand what did the other want to say and they could not get in agree on what to do.


2. What does historical evidence tell us of this biblical event?
Historical evidence, try to explain the evolution of language. People start moving around the world, and the encounter with different cultures, change the different language. This biblical event can explain why now days, they are thousands of different language.


3. What's the relationship between genes and language?
That´s a very important relationship. Genes determine how I would speak and the language I would speak.


4. Why do languages constantly change?

Language change through generations changes, because different generation have different words and ways of speaking. So if we think in 200 years langauge can be very different as we know it now days