The Origin Of Language

THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE

The origin of language is a complex subject to developed because there are no historical facts or direct evidence that denote where or when the language begins as the system of communication that we use every day in our life only there are hypothesis. The question of this and especially of the relationship between words and the things they denote or mean it is a problemwhich has still found no explanation for modern linguistic science.
This review shows a brushstroke of the origin of language according to the British linguistic George Yule of his book “the study of language”.

The Origin of Language

Charles Darwin was one of the first of give an hypothesis about this, he says that the primitive humans had developed a musical ability prior to language andwere using it “to charm each other”. It is a speculative vision of language but also interesting about how language may have originated.
Is a very interesting thing that we know the ability of produce sounds to communicate through speech but we simply do not know how language was originated?, perhaps this is a characteristic or a gene in our brain because there are no evidence relating to this inthe past considering that language have evolved during many years ago until now and we suspect that first was the production speech and after was the written language. In this controversial fact there are sources that try to explain the origin of language as clues to manage to a conclusion.

1. The divine source

The bible describes in the book of Genesis, god created Adan then Adan calledevery creature, that was the name of thereof. There are other holy books that describes different version of the origin of language.
In the past there were experiments also, these experiments basically explain that if a child grows up isolated without the contact of language, the child will speak his original language.

2. The natural sound source

The suggestion of this source is that primitivewords could have been imitations of the natural sounds which early humans heard around them, so they imitated this sounds and associated it with the things such as onomatopoeia.

3. The physical adaptation source

 It refers when the body of the animal in this case the human changes in response to a change in its environment or is circumstances within its environment, so according to thenatural evolve; the primitive humans had the necessity of communication. Some effects of this type of change can be seen in physical differences between the skull of a gorilla and that of a Neanderthal man from around 60,000 years ago. These adaptations have a focus for the production of speech that means, in the organs which produce sounds in the mouth, for example teeth, lips , larynx, pharynx andthe most important the tongue.

4. The tool making source

This source has a close relation with the physical adaptation because the adaption of the primitive human considers the fact that they had to use their hands to make tools, and this activity may indeed have been a crucial stage in the development of language. It is simply explain with the two hemispheres of the brain, in this punctualcase the left hemisphere because the manual activities are developed for the left hemisphere as the same as speaking, so there is an evolutionary connection between the language-using and tool-using abilities of humans and that both are involved in the development of the speaking brain.

5. The genetic source

This source points to something in human genetics, the evolve of language has beenessentially study in the past but now in the present time a child does not need to evolve to acquire the capacity of talking for example a special case are the deaf children, they can not to hear to learn our language but they communicate through signs and body language, this is one of the reasons to believe that only the humans posses a special “language gene”.

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