How did languages started? How did they spread?

Other aliens. And they were taught by God. And he learnt to speak naturally, by making simple sounds while gesticulating.

How long until apes start composing poetry?

I went to college last year and I realized I'd been saying something that literally no one outside of the town I grew up in said and I felt really fucking stupid.

So classical conditioning?

wut were you sayin

when you feel really self conscious and awkward, you feel "crunchy". so if I got drunk and made a fool of myself in front of a group of hot girls, I'd feel crunchy

the same answer as
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_deprivation_experiments

Rap music

Wrong, we are God's chosen, not some slimey green spacenigger. They're not even made in His image

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So it is my understanding that lanfuage literally started for the purpose of gossip.
Creatimg the ability to pass on knowledge of events that occured when the listener was not present.

Haha I too watched Arrival user

It started for the purpose of cooperation, you dumbass.

apes can't speak even if they were taught. It's biologically impossible for them to voluntarily vocalize.

That's why we teach them sign language.

kinda like if you were in a crunch

The short answer is no one knows and it's one of the biggest mysteries in both the study of history and language.

The long answer is that there's no real mystery there, just like with the origin of life, we just haven't created a comprehensive theory yet, and we aren't sure about some details.

youtube.com/watch?v=SLsTskih7_I

Monkeys have been observed connecting sounds they make with meanings meaning language started long before we were even human.

someone gets it. thank you user

>I went to college last year and I realized I'd been saying something that literally no one outside of the town I grew up in said and I felt really fucking stupid.

That's how everyone who moves from Massachusetts to a normal state feels desu.

What normal state?

The other 49.

>inb4 "but [state] isn't normal!"

Language is a form of singing, humans have been making noises since forever just like other animals. Language itself no doubt took a long time to fully form, and probably began as a system of calls for specific events, much as some types of monkey have different calls for different predators.

>Language is a form of singing

I've heard that suggested as a theory before, but what reasons do you personally have for believing that's actually the case?

>birds evolved wings for the purpose of flying

Many animals have elaborate calls that resemble singing, only we have language. Singing and language use the same exact mechanism (breath control), singing is certainly the older of the two so it makes sense to describe language as a subset of singing rather than vice versa (as it is usually considered).

This book provides an interesting take on it, though it starts from humans already using basic words.

god divided us because our forebears were greedy

>How did languages started?

Not with you, that's for sure.

To some extent also apes (or at least bonobos and chimpanzee) have some basic universal body language that's still shared with us, like shaking your head to say no or putting out your hand palm up to ask for something

Watch someone learn a language and you'll see.

Nouns were probably first. Can't talk about things you don't have names for.

"goat"

After than we probably got verbs which allowed basic sentences.

"Kill goat"
"Fuck goat"

And everything built off that.

Wicked pissah.

How is evolution of bird wins relevant to the discussion of language? The analogy doesn't work, any form of proto-language or earlier forms of vocal communication were used for communication.

Isn't it obvious?

the animals that randomly evolved the ability to send signals to others, for example signaling danger or mating calls, were positively selected by having more opportunities to reproduce due to higher attractive ability and longer lives.

jumping a bit forward, these first bits of language became more differentiated through mutation, while still encoded to the genes, which allowed coordinating actions over longer distance which also caused an advantage at surviving selective pressure due to being able to accomplish tasks the individual alone cant.

further mutation regarding the brain structure allowed to use that hardcoded set of language in a more free manner, being able to name things and actions manualy which allowed for a quicker modification of language than evolution alone could achieve. the resulting adaptivity allowed coordination under the most different circumstances, increasing the selective advantage by many times while exponentially speading up the process and effectivity of passing on culture and knowledge.

this in the end, led us to how we are today.
due to the manual modification of language the individual is capable of, the languages themselves were formed in ways that differentiate as much as different communities do