My idea goes as humans started to realize they could make fairly specific sounds with their mouths they started to name objects
objects were at first grouped by color/shape, but evolved more specific names as time advanced, actions upon objects were added from there, and stand alone actions from there
am I onto something? Or am I way off? haven't tried googling anything just yet, but I do have enough weed left to last me the weekend, so I should be able to expand on this further
Sorry, but no, you're not. No one knows how languages began. All proposals are pure speculation. Even so, there are two major approaches, as usual, gradualist vs saltationist. Which approach people take is mostly based on their approach to the language faculty. If you believe the faculty of language is fundamentally simple, e.g. just the simplest possible structure-building operation Merge, then you're more likely to be sympathetic towards the saltationist approach. If you believe the language faculty is more complicated, for instance in lexicalist grammars like construction grammar, then you're more likely to lean towards the gradualist approach.
Josiah Martinez
I just want to know when the names for genitals were invented. Dicks, cocks, willies, helmuts, penises, benises and shit.
David Campbell
In written language at least, historical evidence, as well as some anthropology with primitives, suggest colors came last.
Oddly, in ancient writings, the primary colors almost always begin red (I suppose, blood being an alerting color). Green usually shows up some centuries to millennia later, with blue being last (excluding black and white - the sky, incidentally, often being described as white, before blue is 'invented').
Further, language affects perception fundamentally. Often, if you take someone from a primitive tribe who knows only his own language, and show him a bunch of red squares, with one being blue, he won't be able to identify which is different from the others. Yet, if they have a word for green, he'll find a single green square among a bunch of red squares just fine.
The origins of language are mysterious, for obvious reasons, but we do know language isn't instinctual, at least if you don't have hearing. Communication of some sort always is, but among those that grow up deaf with no exposure to sign language, all communication, and indeed, thought, is through a series of mimes and only pertains to reenactment of common experiences. In those instances where such a person learns signing later in life, they often describe their thought process before then as being a collection of images, rather than words.
So yeah, it's all weird.
Lucas Parker
this post makes me so mad.
Gabriel Stewart
Why?
Logan White
because it's misinformation
Brayden Ramirez
How so?
Blake Phillips
People on the same place live similar life and has similar experience. For this exp. they made unique words. Another ones plays relation roles which goes to become wide-use by everyday usage. Life on a different places may has many differences and this influences on lang. in time differences become very big.
e.g. There is no place for 'sea' word if there is not any sea around.
