In the last weeks I have thought about languages! I started to think about it, because I am not in my hometown, I mean, I am surrounded of people who are from various parts of the world. I have heard people talking in their languages like I have spoken in my mother language, ok. Nothing is wrong. What I am trying to say is: Who created all languages?! Who said that like hand is hand, arm is arm and some things like that?! I speak my mother language because I grew up listening it, but who created all words and sounds?!
Thinking about these things, I had this idea to write this post! I hope you are interested as well!
I found out that there are about 10 thousand languages in the world now! These total, only 400 have written language! Less than 100 have high graphic and literary tradition, and of these, 12 are languages which more than 100 million people speak: Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay, Indonesian, Japanese, German and French.
Nobody knows for sure when the man started to speak, however it is assumed that the languages started to develop about 1,5 million years ago. Some studies show that the first hominy communicated using intentional sounds and it could have been the first step for verbalization!
Mesopotamia arose about more than 6 thousand years ago and it is considered the oldest writing system. Before the writing alphabet was pictographic, it means that people used to draw things they wanted to talk about. After years, this kind of writing changed for arbitrary, it means that one jar with one trace represented one measure and another jar with two traces meant another measure. The representation of words and ideas were possible and the ideographic writing was created!
About in 1500 b.C. in Mesopotamia priests and merchants selected 29 characters which were used by babylonians and for each one of them were defined a kind of sound.
Doesn't matter which language you speak, nor does it matter how many, language is our way to express our feelings with words.
"The man is a wight who created himself while created a language".
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