Descended from animal? Explain language. (page 3)

thetrueone

Different languages were created over a lengthy period of time due to different colonies separating and cultures gradually morphing. Each colony made its own way of communicating - often more individual than the others - to show pride and uniqueness in their own people.

For instance, when referring to Germanic languages and how they made their way to England, we see how the language changed constantly due to environmental factors. The Saxons, speakers of Saxon, a Germanic language, were invaded by the Normans who introduced Norman French to the language of Saxon. The Vikings also had an effect in the north of England as they spoke Norse as well as the Romans, who invaded some time before and introduced Latin, thus the English language we speak today was born and it will continue to forever change.

Dialects also cause the language to change. As mentioned above, some colonies of people wished for their language to be unique and individual from another. The language of Swiss-German is a good example when comparing it to German. Although, some time ago, these were the same people, they purposely created a language - which did have some environmental effects due to bordering with France and Italy - in order to appear different from the common Germanic man.

Standard German (Deutsch): Und ich habe Heimweh nach den Bergen
Swiss-German (Schwyzerdütsch): U i ha Heiweh nach de Bärge

And finally, due to colonies of the world not working together. As humans, we've forced ourselves away from one another for thousands of years, thus we have developed different ideologies, thoughts, cultures and languages from other people. It's pretty simple if you think about it in that sense.

Satanus

Well, gosh, stopthetears, could you list the languages that god created at the tower of babel, so that we can separate the god invented ones from the human invented ones? Thanks.

S

Ps, i just wanna see the difference in the styles of the human languages as compared to those from god. Thanks, again:)

Leolaia

I am heartened to see that most people in this thread have grasped some basics of historical linguistics. And I am most grateful to the OP for the hearty chuckle.

cofty

i just wanna see the difference in the styles of the human languages as compared to those from god. - Satanus

I wonder if god invented Glaswegian (the native language of my hometown of Glasgow, Scotland)?

For example.....

maheidsburstin - I have a pain in my head (implied - perhaps because of too much Buckfast last night)

goannipititinapoke - Are you going to put my purchases in a bag?

howzitgoin? - How are you today?

geeza - the first part of many phrases that are in the form of a request such as...

geezafag - cigarette

geezalight - match to light cigarette

geezabreak - stop it I am running out of patience with you

naebothar - No problem , your welcome

awayanboilyurheid - Pleae stop talking nonsense

Go on then evolushonists explain where glasweegin came from!

wobble

I thought "Glaswegin" was the modern manifestation of the Neanderthal tongue, am I wrong ?

Mind you, you do have a great sense of community there, to quote your local, and only qualified, philosopher, Rab.C.Nesbitt :

" Bugger-all brain cells, but a great sense a community !"

J. Hofer

so god invented spanish, french, english and german back in babel?

The Scotsman

I am sure the evolutionist community will have a theoretical postulation based on no eveidence to counter your argument.

bohm

ambersun

Did one gorilla get angry with another gorilla and decide to start a new language?

This debate falls at the first hurdle in my opinion, as the op is suggesting that humans evolved from gorillas. Evolution indicates that although humans and gorillas are related, we evolved over millions of years from seperate lines therefore the fact that humans have developed the power of speech and gorillas have not is quite inconsequential.

Divergence of the human lineage from other Great Apes

Species close to the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans may be represented by Nakalipithecus fossils found in Kenya and Ouranopithecus found in Greece. Molecular evidence suggests that between 8 and 4 million years ago, first the gorillas, and then the chimpanzees (genus Pan) split off from the line leading to the humans; human DNA is approximately 98.4% identical to that of chimpanzees when comparing single nucleotide polymorphisms (see human evolutionary genetics).

still thinking

God gave humans the ability to speak and communicate using verbal and written language. Humans are unique in the way we communicate. This is why we are able to learn languages from a young age.

I would say that most evolutionists would be struggling to pin point at what stage language began or when it started to evolve into many different languages. Without guessing, that is.

I would like to see some evidence of the claim that The tower of bable occured 1000BC. Thats a big claim.

Descended from animal? Explain language.

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