"The History of Language" & "Language in constant change"

The History of Language


1)Why is it said that people in East Africa developed more than the rest?
Because they had a better language than other tribes and that allow them to succeed.


2)What happened to the earlier languages on Earth?
Has been erased or lost throw time because the earliest languages were just oral and not written. No evidence.

3)According to Dr Johanna Nichols, what were the first utterances made by Humans?
Calls and Sounds

Language In Constant Change


1)What is the biblical story of "The Tower of Babel"?
This story tell us that a very group of humans that was immigrating to the orient wanted to build the biggest tower of all and reach sky so they became famous and all the tribes would go to the tower and humans would live together. But Yahveh came down and made humans spoke different languages and he spread all humans around the Earth. The tower was never finished and it is called Babel because babel means babbling and that was what they understand from eachother.


2)What does historical evidence tell us of this biblical event?
The historical evidence tell us that in those times people started spreading making tribes and that would be the reason of why they spoke different languages.


3)What's the relationship between genes and language?
People with similar genes speak same language.

4)Why do languages constantly changes?
Because it is learnt oraly generation by generation and that make changes in languages.

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What Is Language?

We can say tha language is what we use everyday to express our emotions and ideas, but language is a system, a system we use to comunicate with each other. We are the only specie that has a language. This system is based on RULES which put together elements as: Sounds, Words, Sentences, Meaning. This sounds and words exist in our mind and in our writes. But we choose how to put them together in order to what we think is the best way to express anything. Because words are in our heads and we say them in a careful way to make sure they have a meaning, otherwise the language is unuseful. So this is why we can ensure that language is CREATIVE. So in conclusion language is a system created by humans and for humans that is strict in the words and sounds but it is free in they frases and sentences to create meaning.

Answers to the questionary

1)Which is the trick to communicate us? 
To make a sequence of noises so I can give my thought to another person


2)What do we express when we talk? 
Thoughts, ideas, things, danger.


3)Do animals talk?
No, but they make sounds and gestures to express ideas, for example if a dog is angry with another it will show his teeths and it will bark.


4)What did Dr. Deb Roy try to achieve?
 How children learn to talk.


5)Which are the earliest stages in language for a child?
 Babbling and single words.


6)What external and internal factors made the data recollected in the experiment into something they could use? 
The information of where are them and what are they doing at the moment.

7)How did the parent's speech change from their son's first word until he could utter more complex structures? 
They simplified their speech to communicate better, and then they use long words again.

8)What does Dr Deb Roy compare the "blossoming" of a speech form?
He compares the blossoming of a flower with the blossoming of his son's speech form