When we were at school, it was easy for us to understand all the coded languages made by our friends, but what about the language we make to communicate as it is today, from the many language rules that are difficult to remember and not infrequently it is complicated to appear. Was language created or emerged by itself?
The answer, of course, is that language was created. Just like mathematics, language has formulas that make a sentence understandable. Without this structure, language is ambiguous and we cannot communicate with each other. If it really was created, who created the language?
Okay, apart from Shakespeare who is really a maker of new words in his writings, everyone is the creator of language.
Okay okay, maybe this is confusing. But simply like a revolution, language is formed from thousands of years of change and adaptation. In ancient times when humans were still exploring the earth, tribes often separated to find a new place to live, then because they no longer communicated with each other. Over time, their language has begun to change. Over time, new dialects, accents, and languages began to form.
Then if that’s the case, was there one language in the past that became the source of all languages?
Unfortunately we still don’t know if this universal language existed, but we can trace back and find its “ancestor”, and we can see languages that are related.
For example, Indonesian was born from the same branch into the languages of our neighboring countries. Or English which has the same roots as other European languages.
Now we may know how language can be branched out, but how exactly can language itself be created from scratch?
To answer the question above, there was an interesting incident in “this” country in the 70-80s.
In the past, deaf children in Nicaragua lived a very closed life, there was no special school for them. Well, at home each child has his own sign language to talk to his family, but when these children are at school, sadly, their language is different. No one could talk to each other, finally in a few years later deaf friends in Nicaragua created their own language.
This is a picture of the same process that led to the birth of languages in the world, for hundreds of thousands of years.
Yes, so learning a language doesn’t stop at memorizing grammar and vocabulary.
Finding out about its history like we just now can also be said to be learning a language. In fact, it’s not just learning, there are many people whose work is also making their own language. From fiction writers, to the international community.
In addition to the examples of language formation as above, there is also a theory that is believed to be “reasonable” as the language was created:
- Bow-wow. The bow-wow or cuckoo theory, which Muller attributed to the German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, considers words to begin as imitations of the cries of wild animals or birds.
- Pooh-pooh. The Pooh-Pooh theory considers the first words to be emotional shouts and exclamations triggered by pain, pleasure, surprise, and so on.
- Ding-dong. Müller suggests what he calls the Ding-Dong theory, which states that all beings have a natural resonance vibration, which is echoed by humans in their initial speech in some way.
- Yo-he-ho. The theory of yo-he-ho believes that language arises from regular cooperative activities and efforts to synchronize muscles, resulting in a sound that alternately ‘sighs’ like ho.
- System. This theory is not on Max Müller’s list, but was proposed by Sir Richard Paget in 1930. According to the ta-ta theory, humans make their first words by moving their tongue which mimics manual movements, making them sound audible.
But let’s close this discussion with one fact for you to think about when you are dumbfounded, if you look closely, there is actually no reason why the alphabetical order should be in this order (A B C D E F) can the alphabetical order be changed to (A O D T H B K I) ?????
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