what is the first language in the world?
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What is the first language spoken by man? English originated in England and is spoken as the first language in many parts of the world that were part of the British Empire - namely the United States, Canada, Australia…, New-Zealand.
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- Cuneiform is the first known form of written language, but spoken language predates writing by at least tens of thousands of years. Language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so, and a language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics.
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Coalition, Conquest, and Conversion In the Americas, Spanish is the most widespread first language, and native Spanish speakers can also be found throughout Europe, the United States, the Pacific Islands, and even Africa (Ostler 2005).
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- Quora User, Poetry, philosophy, history, politics, music, television etc. Sumerian is the earliest known language to have been written down. Its script, cuneiform, was developed in Sumer for this purpose. Ancient Egyptian script is at least nearly as old, but the consensus seems to be for Sumerian.
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Origin of language Relying heavily on Atkinson's work, a subsequent study has explored the rate at which phonemes develop naturally, comparing this rate to some of Africa's oldest languages. The results suggest that language first evolved around 350,000-150,000 years ago, which is around the time when modern Homo sapiens evolved.
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Where was the first language created? Confidence votes 29. Answer. If you believe in creation, as I do, then the first language would have come in the very beginning with the creation of Adam. If God spoke with Adam, and he in turn, spoke with Eve, then reasonably, they needed a verbal language.
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- Following is a short essay tracing the roots of many Indian languages, and how a sizeable number of words were assimilated to the English language, during this particular period. India is the cradle to one of the first civilizations of the world, founded in the banks of the Lower Indus River in Southern India.
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- Egyptian is the oldest known indigenous language of Egypt, with written records of the language dating back to around 3400 BC.
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Lightning Science: Five Ways Lightning Strikes People Direct Strike. 1  A person struck directly by lightning becomes a part of the main lightning discharge channel. 2  A side flash (also called a side splash) occurs when lightning strikes a taller object near the victim and a portion of the current jumps from taller object to the victim.
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- A 2004 study published in Science said that 9 percent of the world spoke English as a first language by the middle of the 19th century. The same study found that only 5 percent of the world would speak English as a first language by 2050. Keep Learning.
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The Meaning of Love, as understood from Hebrew Language Hebrew, as one may know, is considered by the Bible to be the first language. It is the language through which God spoke in creating the world. Hence, Hebrew was not just created by God, but utilized by God in creating the world. Much wisdom is attributed to the words and letters in the Hebrew language.
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- And there were over 1,500 languages in the Americas before Columbus. One out of every five languages spoken in the world at that time was probably a Native American language. One out of every 10 people in the world probably spoke a Native American language. Today the number would be less than one in 10,000.
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Communication Disorders The term dysarthria encompasses a group of motor speech disorders caused by a disturbance in the neuromuscular control of speech. These disorders result from central or peripheral nervous system damage and are manifested as weakness, slowness, or incoordination of speech.
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Ten things you might not have known about the English language 4. …but most words that have entered the language since 1066 have Latin origins. If English is your first language but you find French or Spanish easier to understand than German, you are not alone. This may seem strange when English and German are on the same branch of the Indo-European language tree.
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The Six Official Languages of the United Nations In the early years of the UN, there were five official languages, English, French, Russian, Chinese and Spanish. However, English and French were deemed the two working languages. By 1948, Spanish was designated a UN working language, followed by Russian in 1968.
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Citizenship Questions in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Korean, Hindi, Gujarati Here's a listing of the ten most popular languages spoken worldwide, along with the approximate number of primary or first language speakers for that language. 1. Mandarin Chinese - 882 million. 2. Spanish - 325 million. 3. English - 312-380 million. 4. Arabic - 206-422 million.
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- Languages of the World. with an updated Top 20 list of the most widely spoken languages by First language speakers. Mega languages around the World - List of Chinese, English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, and French speaking countries. Official and National Languages of the World by Continent:
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The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World Determining which languages are spoken most in the world is a more difficult task than you might imagine. We can say with some confidence that Mandarin, English, Spanish and Arabic will make an appearance, and roughly in what order.
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What was the first word spoken by a human being? However, since languages and species both evolve slowly over time, the first word spoken by our species would have been a carryover from our immediate ancestor. The most likely words are things fundamental to daily life. References to family members, water, food, danger, etc.
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The worldâs languages, in 7 maps and charts Whereas English lags behind in the number of native speakers, it is by far the world's most commonly studied language. Overall, more people learn English than French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, German and Chinese combined.
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- 1) Belief in divine creation. Many societies throughout history believed that language is the gift of the gods to humans. The most familiar is found in Genesis 2:20, which tells us that Adam gave names to all living creatures. This belief predicates that humans were created from the start with an innate capacity to use language..
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First language According to Ivan Illich, the term mother tongue was first used by Catholic monks to designate a particular language they used, instead of Latin, when they are speaking from the pulpit. That is, the holy mother the Church introduced this term and colonies inherited it from Christianity as a part of colonialism.
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- Ben McPartland · 26 Mar 2014, 11:02. Published: 26 Mar 2014 11:02 GMT+01:00. A recent study by a French bank has caused a stir after it concluded that French, not English or Mandarin Chinese, will be the world’s most spoken language by the year 2050.
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- Latin was the official language of the empire. It has influenced many languages in the continent of Europe, many of which are the major languages of the world. The languages …that come from Latin are described as the Romance Languages, the main ones are: French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian.
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Spain In the early modern period, Spain became one of history's first global colonial empires, leaving a vast cultural and linguistic legacy that includes over 500 million Spanish speakers, making Spanish the world's second most spoken first language.
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Flash Cards Ethnicity and Race The second most common native language in the world. The third most common native language in the world. The official language of more countries than any other. It is also understood and spoken to some degree by 1/4 to 1/3 of humanity. The number of the world’s 5,000-6,000 languages that are no longer spoken by children.