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| Honest Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5318 days ago 89 posts - 92 votes  Speaks: Arabic (Gulf)*, English | Message 1 of 10 04 May 2010 at 3:38am | IP Logged | ||
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What was the first language ever spoken? And how did people start speaking in the first place? :)
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| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5339 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 2 of 10 04 May 2010 at 4:11am | IP Logged | ||
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it's impossible to know what the language was like.
People started speaking the moment they were created. Edited by Smart on 04 May 2010 at 4:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 3 of 10 04 May 2010 at 4:15am | IP Logged | ||
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In my opinion they probably relied on body language rather than spoken language. over time it was developed into an actual system. However that's just me :)
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| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6368 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 10 04 May 2010 at 4:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah... definitely impossible to know. Writing has only been used for 5,000-10,000 years, depending on what you'd classify as writing, and humans have been here a bit longer than that - about 200,000 years.
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| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5339 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 5 of 10 04 May 2010 at 4:49am | IP Logged | ||
the evidence suggests 50-60,000. Not 200k. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6259 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 6 of 10 04 May 2010 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Read about the "Great Leap Forward" (not to be confused with the Chinese movement it the time of Mao!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity#Great_leap _forward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language I recommend you to watch BBC Horizon - Why Do We Talk? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| original501 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5639 days ago 23 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Portuguese Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 7 of 10 05 May 2010 at 2:25am | IP Logged | ||
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The Tower of Babel
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| sik0fewl Newbie Canada Joined 5494 days ago 31 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 8 of 10 05 May 2010 at 3:12am | IP Logged | ||
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I imagine it started with a series of grunts and slowly became more sophisticated :)
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