I have so
many questions - where did all of the world’s languages really begin? Who were
the first to ever speak like we do today? Why can’t all of us humans speak one
universal language? The list is endless.
Well, I
suppose the answers to this infinite stream of questions really lie in the
lives of those who lived long ago. The Neanderthals, who lived around half a
million years ago, were a species of human with some traits similar to our own.
They would have been one of the first to ever communicate in any way which
remotely resembles speech today. They could communicate through a series of
grunts and noises but lacked the brains to develop their skills. The
Neanderthals spread throughout Eurasia but eventually died out due to over
dominance by the Homo-Sapiens from Africa.
The Homo-Sapiens, who we are descended from, also communicated verbally. They arrived around the same time as the Neanderthals but came from Africa. They were more intelligent than the Neanderthals and therefore had advantage over them. They ended up dominating as they spread from Africa to Europe but did some interbreeding with the Neanderthals. The human race expanded from there. So really, how we talk today comes from the first ever humans. As the evolution of the human race progressed, our languages did the same.
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