language

[Agua]

*sits with Plato*

"What the Gods, or God, gives us, can only ever be a pale reflection of their true form"

Humans are not perfect, by Herder's logic, we do not come from God-was he Christian?

hehe... plato again. he's considered to be the forerunner of modern linguists, btw. as for herder, yeah, he's a christian, but due to his background (the enlightenment) he harshly criticised the christian doctrines.

[Agua]

I said all languages probably came from one language, which I'm still not 100% sure of, its just an assumtion.  This monogenetic origin perspective COULD be true, if it is than all languages that now exist are descendants of that first original language.  That "original" language was probably not a 'fixed', 'official' language, probably just a buncha words which people kept modifying over and over as man evolved.  Then slowly, a group of the speakers of some daughter branches developed cultures that invented writing earlier than others.  The growth of these languages are probably coeval to each other.  We cant really determine the exact AGE of the languages.

welcome to the club of generative linguists (-->roman jakobson, noam chomsky et al.)