How languages were formed
How languages were formed
Until now, linguists are arguing about howhuman language. There are many theories explaining the origin of the language, but none of them is proven, as they can not be reproduced in an experiment or observed. But how the ancient proto-language has divided into several species from which different languages originated, scientists have more idea, since the process of dividing languages can still be observed today.
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The problem of the origin of languages wasancient people, in ancient Egypt, philosophers and scientists tried to find out which language was the most ancient in the world. Ancient Greek philosophers laid the foundation for the emergence of modern theories of the origin of language. Some advocated the natural nature of the language, which is closely related to nature, others said that the signs of language do not reflect the essence of things in any way, but only call them. Throughout the period of the development of linguistics, new theories of the origin of language have appeared: the sudden emergence of a genetic mutation, the theory of gestures, onomatopoeia, religious theories. While it is not exactly established how the human language arose.
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Today there are several thousand languages in the world,united by kinship in language families. There are two basic concepts that describe the existence of many human languages. One of them - the theory of polygenesis - suggests that initially there were several foci of the emergence of language, that is, on the Earth simultaneously in several places a group of people began to use a system of signs for communication. The concept of monogenesis suggests that the focus was unique, that is, all modern world languages have common roots, since they originated from a single prima lyku or a world language. While linguists did not come to a common opinion on this issue, as modern methods of research allow us to establish the relationship of languages that separated no more than ten thousand years ago, whereas the proto-language existed long before that.
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From the common language, the languages were divided in the same way asand today dialects disagree, gradually turning into separate languages. Groups of people constantly migrated, moved from place to place, became isolated from each other, and changing conditions forced languages to improve. Gradually the differences became so significant that it became more and more difficult to establish kinship. Most modern European languages originated from the ancient Indo-European, but today only linguists are able to see similar features in these languages. The study of the relationship of languages is carried out by a field of linguistics called comparative-historical linguistics.
