How and when the talent of language developed is nearly impossible to say. All religions and mythologies contain stories of language origin. Many philosophers and scholarly works argued the topic.

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Language History

Although all social animals have the ability to communicates, only human s have developed a language that şs more than just  prearranged signals. Even on tha physical basis our humans’ speech differs from the communication of the animals, as it is progress by a cortical speech center. This centre does nor respond instinctively, but organizes sounds and meaning on a rational basis and is unique to human.

How and when the talent of language developed is nearly impossible to say. All religions and mythologies contain stories of language origin. Many philosophers and scholarly works argued the topic. But the difficulties in answering the question still remain because the earliest deciphered written records are barely six thousand years old, writings of Sumerians of 4000 B.C. , although species have existed for at least one million years to five or six million years.

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The records appear so lately that they include no clue about the origin of language.

For this reason many late scholars in nineteenth century who were only interested in “hard science” neglected and even banned  discussions on language origin. In 1886, the Linguistic Society of Paris passed a resolution “outlawing” any paper on the topic.

According to Christian beliefs, God have given Adam the power to name all things. For example, Adam gave “woman” the name “ischa” as he knew that she derived and was a part of man, “isch”. Similar thoughts are found throughout the world. According ...

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