About 6500 languages are spoken in the world today
To think that from an evolutionary point of view, if man is a product of the Survival of the Fittest and not much different from other living beings like humans, is just some advanced animal, then how did language come into being only on the part of man? If monkeys or champions were less developed than humans, they would at least speak a lesser level of language than humans. There should have been a progressive change, with some animals speaking simple language, some more complex, some more complex. But here it is a matter of yes or no. No one else is speaking, only man is speaking. The main reason is that evolution has changed everything. Is man, animal, human organs as well as human brain and thinking evolving? Thinking has evolved. And necessity and natural selection compelled man to speak
Neanderthals, which existed 600,000 years ago before humans, had these changes in their nerves to make sounds and change the way they sound.
But if you go back a million years, Homo erectus, then a prehistoric human-like creature, did not undergo these changes and lacked the ability to speak or make a sound.
Maggie Tallerman, a professor of linguistics at the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom, says that mankind is the only creature that has the power of speech and this sets it apart from other animals.
There is another quality of human communication which is called distance or offline thinking. When you use language to tell others about things that are not immediately there. Because maybe it's happening in different places at different times.
Professor Tallerman says that perhaps the desire to eat and keep alive helped to increase a person's ability to tell each other. Like telling your colleagues about the availability of free food
We can go as far as 50,000 years to find out the origin of language. Most linguists think that it may be something much older. Professor Tollerman says many of us think that this could go back 500,000 years.
Along with other human abilities, human language has also undergone evolutionary stages and language is still evolving. It is possible that after 100,000 years, no language would exist today. Man-made inventions and perhaps the greatest virtue of today's man is his eloquence