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Language- Origins
2007/09/17,10:06

world language map

"Maps courtesy of www.theodora.com/maps used with permission"

I was simply amazed to learn about the possibility of a universal translator the way it is used in Star Trek. Everyone can speak in their mother tongue and with this amazing technology will hear others in their mother tongue.

Wow! what if that is possible now?

With my mind dwelling on this idea, I sprung to another branch like a monkey - the branch is "how language would have been formed?"

I visited Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language. My immense thanks to them for such a rich and interesting collection of information on wide variety of subjects. With fullest respect to the effort and the information that they have in wiki for everything, I here by share a very few interesting information that I read from there. I believe that it will motivate you all to read all of it in wikipedia and also spring your imagination, if not like mine, in your own way!

*All humans possess similar linguistic abilities, and no child is born with a biological predisposition favoring any one language or type of language

*Anatomically modern humans first appear in the fossil record 200,000 years ago in Ethiopia.

*There is still some debate as to whether language developed gradually over thousands of years or whether it appeared suddenly.

"Linguistic monogenesis (the "Mother Tongue Theory") is the hypothesis that there was one single protolanguage (the "Proto-World language") from which all other languages spoken by humans descend."

Will stop here... Have a nice day!

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