Mythological roots
One of the first written evidence of the language is in Genesis, dated about one thousand BC, when God asked Adam name the animals, each according to its kind. "
There are some interesting mythological explanations for the masses of languages on the planet, like the Tower of Bab in the Bible, where man has developed such a pride, they wanted to reach for the stars and God himself. Then God said, "[GE] 11:06" If as one peoplespeak the same language they have begun, have to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Let's go down and confuse their language so that you do not understand. "And the Lord scattered them abroad from there over all the earth, and held to build the city. Therefore, it is also called, was Babel - because there the Lord confused the language of the world. From there the Lord scattered them on the face of around the world. "
A Hindu myth tells of how not to assumeonly differences in language, but also the diversity of cultures, traditions, or created, with the punishment of a proud tree of Brahma, 'It is grown in the center of the earth, "the tree of knowledge wonderful world" or "tree. "It 's been so great that almost reached the sky. He said in his heart:" I want to keep my head in heaven and spread my branches over all the earth, and gather all men together under my shadow, and protect and prevent them from separating. "But Brahma, to punish pridethe tree whose branches are cut off and threw it on the floor as she jumped up, as wata trees, and made differences of belief and language and customs that prevail on earth, to distribute to the people on its surface. "
A Salishan (a tribe in North and South America), the myth tells how a topic, different languages. Two people were accompanied discuss whether the high hum, that the ducks are flying from the sky through the mouth or from behind the scenes. TheArgument was not the boss, then that is a council of all the people from surrounding villages. This counsel interrupted the argument, because nobody could accept, and finally the dispute to a split, where some people away. Over time, slowly began to speak differently, and possibly other languages were formed.
The formation of language and communication
There are several scientific reasons for the plethora of languages, to explain how peopleImitations of animal sounds (Meow Meow), or development of natural sounds (ah ah). One interesting theory is that the difference in languages other tribe or was motivated by selfish instincts of survival, where a parent to try to Have some 'code that the statement would be understood or do not be fooled, so you attack or you have some advantages over them.
It is generally believed that languages are between 2 million and has begun40,000 years ago. In our human development, grunting in communication would have developed more complex and Neanderthals, for example, was able to communicate at some fundamental level. But about a million years in Africa, the FOXP2 gene came into existence and gave this new humanoid race greater communication skills and paved the way for faster development. And 'demonstrated that all humans today descend from the roots in Africa, where in Africa at a time that was common to findblonde, blue-eyed Caucasian beside someone darker than the same night, in addition to half-skinned tanned person. to develop, but develop this ability to get more expensive this type of communication has given man an advantage over their predecessors in the position and communicate complex concepts and strategies, to the point that this kind surpassed all their predecessors, and they forcing the extinction of Neanderthals.
Even animals communicate, but the wisest of them do not seemDo not touch the complex syntax of human grammar. Each language can be used as a living and evolving. The teenager goes to school and learn the latest slang to be cool in and the gap between generations is encouraged. This Lingo may vary from location to location, so that a language can vary geographically and wander, even if the modern media can be used across borders and promote global Lingo. But this support does not exist 50 years ago, in which languages were the caseto develop freely and differences to the local level. Going further back, could develop more quickly at hand, if children do not attend school, where they have nationalized some version of their language was taught to go, instead of teaching the language of their parents and other locals. And so we dialects of the same language.
The Bible can be used as the average of the past for this purpose is considered if, for example in Germany, his translation of local dialects over a wide range of final German linepeople talking, or the creation of standard German, technically a new language and a nationalized version of unifying many areas. The Bible, one of the first most important publications in many languages, plays a similar role for the development and standardization of these languages. In fact, the first major release was always the Bible. Arabic draws great influence from the Koran, which presumably is divided so masterfully that was inspired by divine necessity. Many ofEuropean languages diverged from Latin and English is a hybrid of several languages, as explained below. So what may have started to grunt as universal, to represent a particular concept was developed over time in different ways depending on the creativity of local people and their discovery over time different sounds you can do with language and mouth. Many languages have sounds and that letters in their alphabet, which are not available in other languages. Some languagesalso use expressions and other body parts to express themselves. For example, breathe in Norway, fasting is a common understanding.
As man has evolved, so has their method of communication at the regional level, languages are finally in groups and clusters and related (Indo-European family, etc.). Many languages can be used to track the migration of its peoples, as the Hungarian language, which would cause the Urals.
This is the development of some LED10,000 languages, but in modern times, with the media, the dominance of certain languages and general culture, about one third of which are already extinct. Scientists worldwide are trying desperately to capture and document the remaining, as they reveal important clues for our development and migration of mankind as a whole. Field researchers have made handwritten notes and wire recordings completed laptops, mini-discs, DAT and MP3. "There are among us startof the digital age and the mass extinction of languages around the world, "said Prof. Vogel. of 6500 currently in existence will, Another 3,000 in the next one hundred years to disappear if not registered. Others still expect that 90% would die of languages at the end of this century. Australia, home to Professor Bird also has several Endangered Languages of all other countries and there are estimates that about 80 indigenous languages in Australia with only 5speakers or less.
The study of languages in India began in the 5th Century BC, the language of Sanskrit.
Development of an alphabet - written language
Later, around 1000 BC, to awaken the empire of the Phoenicians on the Mediterranean coast, took the base of the sea power of the many surrounding cultures. They should create descendants of the Canaanites, and their alphabet from an earlier Semitic / Hebrew prototype created byPhoenician alphabet, ending in the alphabet of the Greeks (who were kind enough to add your voice and develop alphabets from which all European routes), the Middle East and India. The Cyrillic alphabet, used by the Russians, and parts of eastern Europe, was developed by the Bulgarians in the greek alphabet. One of the great Phoenician port of Byblos has been negotiated, although the name of the city was different before and after. It is said to be the first city ever built in the world,where writing began (c. 1200 BC), where the papyrus was the subject of intense marketing and exported to Greece (papyrus to write original material where Bublos greek papyrus) is the oldest continuously inhabited cities of the world (now called Jbeil, 42 km north of Beirut), and the word Bible comes from its name.
Development of English in a global language
As humans have populated the earth, the migration towards its different angles and makeIT and change in their mother tongue, there comes a point where you just walk pastures open and unexplored, and developed the technology and organizational cultures so that some languages are beginning to dominate, through education , the media and other means. Simple Chinese has been developed to facilitate learning and to unify communications over a wider area, so this means clustering is currently the world's most widely used language of communication asLanguage. But as a secondary language and national, English is the most widely spoken. Interestingly, the native speakers as English (or second language) are found in India, followed by China and then from the United States. In fact, there are at least 28 countries of the world where English is an official language, but not the mother tongue of the population (such as India, Pakistan and Philippines). Although modern standard ChineseMandarin has the most at about 700 million native speakers, and Hindi is the second most widely spoken native language is English 350 million native speakers, but a further 1.5 billion speak it as a second language.
English has a rather interesting story, drawing on the roots of Old English in the Federal Republic of Germany said, more Friesland, the language of the Netherlands. This branch has diverged more than any of the other Germanic languages (itself a branch of Indo-EuropeanFamily), from Old English Anglo-Saxons spoke of the century it was argued that small island of Great Britain by settlers in the 5th Place. Meanwhile, we have the latest and North Germanic language of the Vikings who settled mainly in the north and east of England. These Germanic languages was led by the Celtic dialects, where strong resistance from the Scots to the north, which was the most unique version of English than the rest influenced.
Subsequently,for centuries, English was heavily influenced by the Norman Conquest, when Anglo-Norman is very similar to those in old French and influences have led to Middle English (as it was about 40% of modern English vocabulary is calculated created by the French). In the 15th Century was a "great Middle English vowel shift" in London, the normalization of pressure, resulting in Early Modern English around the time of Shakespeare.
Therefore, it is fully matured by the time Englishbefore entering into the modern era has been drawn up about a third of German, French, third, and third greek and latin.
And that's when we have the era of colonialism in force. Britain, on an island, and by default is a strong naval power, was in a good position. The Dutch have also been a traditional power of the sea, where the maritime trade often led to economic power. The continental European countries like France, Germany and Spain traded more with itself and other landCountries, but have jumped on the moving train at Colonial for the major European countries had colonies in different parts of the world as America, Africa and Asia. However, after the wars in Europe resulted in ceasefires and agreements, so that many colonies were founded by the countries of continental Europe, the British lost. If it is gone, traded as part of a cease-fire, could in military campaigns abroad, lost, these countries could not support the mainland, orTo defend because they had enough to worry about back home.
English as a global language so only through the widespread dominance of British colonial expansion, then the economic power in the long United States. It 's the main language of business and commerce, has the official language in many countries and recently has further entrenched its dominant position in the media, through film and music. Even more recently developed by the Internet, both in general in the United KingdomStates. Technology, hardware and software, and give an advantage that many English people have to learn the basis for their work efficiently, which in turn creates incentives for many governments and organizations, teaching basic skills in English.
In Science (although the terminology of science is still largely from the Latin) was created, 95% of the articles are written in English, even if half of them were written by non-native speakers. The United States currently leads theWorld language, but Prince Charles has promised that he would do everything in its real tool for promoting greater use of British English language schools worldwide. Unfortunately, it has more than just the basic rich U.S. English schools worldwide to fight, but also the richness of British private students, who are little more than the U.S. and speakers you want to travel around the world, often with English teaching as a meansto extend their stay in foreign countries. Also, their pronunciation tends to be monotonous and easier to understand than the fun, colorful accents of English (whose dialect and pronunciation, among them, can vary significantly).
Unlike France, the Academie Francaise, English has no central authority to dictate its further development, as the world and learn every time you change infiltrates the regional level. It 's funny to remember that although English wasfrom so many languages, is now circle back, his words imported exported again in border regions, creating what known as Franglais in the Channel Islands, Frenglish the border of Quebec, Canada and Norwenglish. Perhaps we are all on a global mushglish.
And what is mushglish leads linguists to consider: a bad choice as the dominant global language and inconsistency of the debate and less than perfect grammarStructure.
Since it introduced its global dominance, but has also changed to make it easier to learn from international speakers. For example, there Seaspeak (lots of words that are, inter alia, designed by the Dutch, as historically a maritime nation, and therefore have thought much of these words), and Airspeak and police speak, so that ships and aircraft does not crash when aid another, or the capture of international criminals. Then there are special English, limited1500 words (from his original robust 500,000) and Voice of America. Finally, we used basic English, from aircraft manufacturers, international companies and basic knowledge of English schools to write their manuals, which first language by Charles Kay Ogden, devised according to which: "If it Takes 7 years to learn English, and seven months to learn Esperanto, you need to get to 7 weeks of basic English. "
created new and modern languages and versions
And recently wesome languages that have been created and not evolved. Created to create a universal and easy to learn the language of communication for people worldwide to help. Such language is Esperanto and Interlingua is different, the vocabulary of the latter is drawn from many languages, it makes it easier to learn from much of the world population. And finally we can about these programming languages, creating a scientific language, to perform various functions AddComputer.
A recent example of the language of creation is Sango, the mere talk of a pidgin spoken by traders along the Ubangi River in a complex language that has developed five million people in Central African Republic in just over a century.
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