Discovery of Language?

Question

Whom do you think discovered language and how would the discovery have come about?

Answer 1

Language as a communication mean was found ever since the creation of earth, but if you mean the written language recorded in the Mesopotamia by the Sommers and developed by the Phenics around 7000years ago

Answer 2

im no expert but we learnt about this in school.

communication has been around since the begining of time. different animals had to comunicate mainly to warn others of danger. this would have just been random sounds that they could create but in different tones. alot of scientists say that actual language began when humans first learnt how to sustain a fire. fire ment they could see their enemys coming from far away and alot of other animals would stay away from them because the fire scared them. with *** this protection covered they had more time to relax when it became dark. big groups of people would sit around the fire and just look at it. its kinda mesmorising and they would get lost in thought. the fire let them find words for things in their mind and eventually there was spoken language.

Answer 3

Language wasn't discovered. It just came about. When our ancestors started to develop muscles in our face to create different sounds. We started to communicate with each other. If you asking for the first people to use language, that would be the Africans in Ethiopia. Since Humans are the only known primate that can talk and the first Humans lived in Africa.

Edit: Oh yeah and P.S. I'm not an Atheist, even though I believe in evolution.

Answer 4

Language came about since living species have the ability to communicate.  This could be a means of communication through visual, tactile, or auditory symbols of communication.

Answer 5

I don't think anyone exactly "discovered" language, per se.  It was probably more a product of evolution than anything.

Tons of animals communicate in one way or another.  Through the course of evolution, being able to remember more verbal signals for particular things was probably advantageous for early humans, and those who could remember more signals survived to produce more offspring.  Ultimately, this evolution may have run wild until our capacity for words, language, syntax, and semantics had ballooned up to crazy proportions.

Of course, all of that is referring to verbal language.  Written language probably evolved somewhat differently and much later, but there still would have been some sort of evolution, rather than a sudden discovery.  Pictographs could have become simplified, and over time, come to represent more abstract concepts.

This would be my thought on the matter, anyway.  Because we have an innate capacity to learn language, it doesn't seem likely that it is an entirely artificial creation.