I understand there are 3 basic languages that all languages are derived from, is this true if so what are they
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This is not true.  In the 19th century, some linguists proposed this as a possibility, but it has since been disproven.\n\nInitially, linguists thought that all world languages fell into four groups: Indo-European, Australo-Asiatic, Afro-Asiatic, and Sino-Tibetan.\n\nPeople had not yet really looked into Native American languages.  When it became clear that there were many languages worldwide that did not fit into the basic scheme of 4, linguists had to rethink everything.\n\nToday, it has become clear that there are hundreds of language families, and the basic four groups have been placed into a larger scheme containing dozens and dozens of "language families."  None of the language families are related to any other language families, so if you think about it, the great differences and high levels of complexity get really mind-boggling.\n\n(Just a note: the previous answers are way off - Latin, Greek and Sanskrit are all are part of the same family: Indo-European.)\n\nWikipedia has a decent website outlining the language families -- if you're interested, you might want to check it out.\n\nHere's an excerpt:\n\nThe largest language families in terms of number of languages are:\n\nNiger-Congo (1514 languages) \nAustronesian (1268 languages) \nTrans-New Guinea (564 languages) (validity disputed) \nIndo-European (449 languages) \nSino-Tibetan (403 languages) \nAfro-Asiatic (375 languages) \nNilo-Saharan (204 languages) \nPama-Nyungan (178 languages) \nOto-Manguean (174 languages) (number disputed; Lyle Campbell includes only 27) \nAustro-Asiatic (169 languages) \nSepik-Ramu (100 languages) (validity disputed) \nTai-Kadai (76 languages) \nTupi (76 languages) \nDravidian (73 languages) \nMayan (69 languages)
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Language is always changing, therefore the language that was first spoken by humans no longer exists.  It is the mother that gave birth to all of the languages that exist today.  The mother's spirit is in all the children, but none of the children are the mother. \n \nA sort of Holy Grail of linguistics would be to discover what the mother of all languages was like.  It's possible that with enough study we can figure out something about it-- we have after all learned quite a bit about Indo-European, a prehistorical language which has been discovered by careful examinations of the commonalities between modern languages stretching all the way across Europe and Asia. \n \nThe first language probably developed along with the first speakers, people who lived long enough ago that not just their cultures but even their bodies were substantially different from how things are now. \n \nIt's pure speculation, but I think that sign language and spoken language probably emerged at the same time, in that strange noble race.  Sign and spoken languages seem to me to share a spiritual core, to be the same in their essence.  The great singular power of our facility of language is to make any thing mean any other thing.  A pile of rocks may mean a burning fire.  Some strangely shaped lines can mean the very "meaning" itself.  What a glorious world. \n \n<3
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Groups of people who share a common history generally share the same language. This is usually not because someone forced them to learn it, but because it has been handed down to them. \n\nNobody knows when the first language was formed, and where. Almost all european languages, and those of India, share a common source called Indo-European. As the people who spoke those languages spread out across the european continent, parts of Asia and Africa, they took their language with them.\n\nVarying local conditions, contact with speakers of other languages, and other factors such as isolation and trade, over time, leads these languages to diverge into the numerous amounts of languages we have today.\n\nThe short answer - very rarely did anyone "get a whole bunch of people" to adopt the same language. Rather, the language is handed down from generation to generation, and evolved much as languages do today among the youth.
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English has some words derived from Arabic so Arabic comes first.\n\nThe Arabic language (Arabic: اللغة العربية‎ ​ transliterated: al-lughah al-‘Arabīyyah), or simply Arabic (Arabic: عربي‎ ​ transliterated: ‘Arabī), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. It is spoken throughout the Arab world and is widely studied and known throughout the Islamic world. Arabic has been a literary language since at least the 6th century and is the liturgical language of Islam.\n\nQuite a few English words are ultimately derived from Arabic, often through other European languages, especially Spanish, among them every-day vocabulary like "sugar" (sukkar), "cotton" (quṭn) or "magazine" (maḫāzin). More recognizable are words like "algebra", "alcohol" and "zenith" (see list of English words of Arabic origin).
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Because many of languages have root word from Latin?
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It was a Good but a confusing question, actually when you install Visual Studio its asks for what type of languages you want to install, If ya select all of 'em then they all are installed.\n\nIf supposed you missed a language you can always install it later by running the Setup again, it will ask you what to do!
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Greek is a language...
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THE SIX ..? Sounds like the 6 properties were discussed in your study text - here are a few off the top of my head\n\nA foreign laguage is not a secret code of your mother tongue. It has it's own rules and personality. (German is technical. Korean is more spiritual and repectful of older generations)\n\nYou will find languages all have vowel sounds made from the throat and constant sounds made by the tongue, lips and teeth. (arguements for languages for animals look at the sounds)\n\nThe sentence structure is different in each language. Nouns,  Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs are common in all languages, but have greater or lesser importance in each. (long verbs cam be formed in German using nouns as their basis. English may have nouns based on verb origins -eg: "dining room")\n\nIrregular words (verbs or nouns with plurals) give an idea of things that were important to the host culture before language rules were applied (eg - from wheat to bread, we have many words that discribe the different phases of that food in the West. In the East, rice has many variations to the words used depending on being the plant or gathered or cooking or served).\nVerbs used for hunting (shoot, run, hit, eat) are irregular in English to give an idea what is important to our cultural background. In Greek, there are 5 to 8 translation to our one word "Love" - shows what is important there.\n\nmany cultures have "Peace" as an important part of their greeting or departing wish.
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What am I missing here,is this a language?What are you referring to exactly?
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only one (filipino).  169 languages actually but thousands of dialects on each of them.
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One authoritative source that has collected data from all over the world, The Ethnologue, listed the total number of current languages in the world as 6809 (1).  These languages have come from about 20 “proto-langauges.” A “protolanguage” is simply:  a ”recorded ancestral language.”\n\nBased on the criteria of your question the answer is:\n\nAramaic\n\nAramaic is one of the world's oldest languages.  Last year, Aramaic was heard by large audiences in the film "Passion of the Christ", which portrayed the last 12 hours of Christ’s life.  Today this ancient language is spoken by around 15,000 people and is in danger of dying out.\nAramaic precedes Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Sanskrit and is also older then the “proto-language” from which Chinese originated.
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"German (official) 63.7%, French (official) 20.4%, Italian (official) 6.5%, Serbo-Croatian 1.5%, Albanian 1.3%, Portuguese 1.2%, Spanish 1.1%, English 1%, Romansch 0.5%, other 2.8% (2000 census)\nnote: German, French, Italian, and Romansch are all national languages, but only the first three are official languages"\n\nDont quote me on those figures, they come from the CIA LOL
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These languages are used to write programs.\n\nas u might already know they are the programming laguages\n\nC is a structured programming language\nand\nC++ is a Object Oriented Programming Language\n\nand these are quite powerful languages.\n\ncoz u mght have heard the name of a Operating sysem named "UNIX".\nwell do u know that, this "UNIX" was made in "C".\n80% of the operating system was made in "C", so now u can think of the power of the languages.\nand these languages are the easiest to learn.\nhowever as u keep learning they become complex and harder.\nhowever "C" is my faviourite programming languages and this was the first language i learnt.
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ANSWER: Although a language can be defined as differently from one person to the next, SIL International, the pre-eminent source for the catalogue of languages around the world, claim there are 6,912 known languages.\n\nEDIT: Posted wrong link, this is correct\n\nhttp://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp
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If you're asking for the history of language, that can be traced through various archeological websites. Generally, we can trace our English and many other European languages back to roots in northern India. But that's a "where," not a "how."\nSites that deal with theories about language are referenced below.\n\nNoam Chomsky says:\n".....which meant that the language system is like other biological systems. It develops in its own specific fashion on the basis of its genetically determined properties and in the course of this development it's modified and shaped by interaction with the outside environment in some fashion."(1)\n\nRead more on this and follow the links listed in UsingEnglish.com \n"Jelle Zuidema's essay "The Origin of Language Debate" contains a discussion about the theories put forward by Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker (who provided the basis for the now widely accepted classical theory on the origin and development of language skills), and those provided by Luc Steels and Brian MacWhinney who attempt to propose an alternative theory." (2)
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Basic answer  -- the languages have many similarities for TWO reaons --   an ancient COMMON ancestry, and much CONTACT through the millennia.\n\nThe three languages you listed -- Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic-- all go back to one ancient "root" language we might call "Common Semitic".  This is the starting place for understanding why a speaker of one language may understand, or at least easily learn, another of the languages.  It's a bit like French, Italian and Spanish speakers whose languages all go back to Latin.\n\nNow much of the ancient historical relationship amongst the different Semitic languages is obscure, and some of it is highly debated, since that 'language history' has to be reconstructed based on clues left in the languages (or in written records of earlier forms of the languages).     The "family tree" model also has some significant weaknesses (see below), but is still useful for drawing a rough picture.\n\nHere's a sketch:\n\n1) HEBREW and Aramaic are fairly closely related, coming from two 'subbranches' of part of the large tree of Semitic.  "Aramaic" actually covers a diversity of dialects.    Hebrew is a "Canaanite" language (the last remaining), and was spoken by the 'people of Israel' up to the time of the Babylonian Captivity in the 6th century B.C..   (The precise beginnings of Hebrew are murky.)\n\nThese two subbranches are the main representatives of what are usually called the "Northwest Semitic languages", though in more recent systems they may also be called "North Central Semitic" languages.\n\n2) ARAMAIC - Historically we know that various types of Aramaic were spoken in Syria (a region called "Aram" in the first millennium)-- in the lands between the Mediterranean coast and Mesopotamia.   These lands and peoples came under the control of the Assyrians ("Neo-Assyrian Empire"), then the Babylonians ("Neo-Babylonian Empre" of Nebuchadnezzar, etc), and later the (non-Semitic) Persians.   But rather than these peoples adopting the language of their Mesopotamian conquerors (esp. the "Neo-Assyrian" and "Neo-Babylonian" dialects of the Eastern Semitic language scholars call "Akkadian"),  Aramaic itself became the lingua franca of these empires, and eventually many of the legal documents were written in Aramaic.  (Persia continued this practice.)  [Note that "Neo-Babylonian" is NOT Aramaic, but the dialect of Akkadian.]\n\nLeading members of the Hebrew-speaking peoples of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah were carried into exile by the Assyrians & Babylonians.  When their descendants returned they brought the Aramaic language back with them, though they continued to use Hebrew for religious purposes.  (Because these returnees were chiefly from the former Kingdom of Judah, they were called "Judahites", from which we get the word "Jews" ["Juedisch" /"Yiddish" in German]. )\n\nAramaic dialects of various sorts continued to dominate the region for many centuries (though Greek was also used for various purposes after the rise of the Greek Empire and esp its Mesopotamain offshoot, the Seleucids).  In the early centuries of the church the later Aramaic dialect/language known as Syriac  was dominant (hence one of the earliest translations of the New Testament is the Syriac).\n\n3) Another Semitic language, ARABIC, swept across the region and displaced most of the Aramaic dialects with the rise of Islam and Arab conquest (though a few small pockets preserved Aramaic, and a handful of "Neo-Aramaic" dialects survive to this day).   But what exactly is the relationship of this Semitic language, esp. to Aramaic?\n\nThe "family tree" explanation has shifted a bit over the years.  Arabic used to be classified with "Southern Semitic" languages (including Southern Arabian and, more dis
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I think it derives from a certain language called "tamil" \nand it's like from India or a similar country I'm not \nentirely convinced and sorry couldn't find what it means