please tell me what is the root of all language?
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The Adamic language. It was the language spoken by Adam and Eve.
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Actually, The first most spoken language is chinese.....Then comes English, then Hindi...\n\n1st - Mandarin\n2nd - English\n3rd - Hindi\n4th - Spanish\n5th - Arabic
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Sanskrit...\n\nsanskrit is considered as the mother language of many other languages including tamil..
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poverty...which is the root of all evil
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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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Tough question. And hard to explain. Indeed, something that has been discussed for over two thousand years.\nGoing to the basics of contemporary linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure made a distinction between language and speaking (even though they depend on each other)or langue et parole in french . He considered language the conventional system used for communication and speaking as the personal uses, changes and meanings for an individual. When this personal changes or intermissions from other languages get to the conventional system, language is modified; so, we make use of the system and we modify it from the inside.\nThis is a theory brought up in the beginning of 20th century and has been largely discussed and changed over the years; still, it sets some general characteristics of language.\nIn any case, as language is something we can not grab on the entirely as it is constantly modifying, we could even believe that has a life of its own, which sounds to "mystical" for me: I'd rather believe it flows as we flow.
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The most logical language ever invented by linguists was a language called loglan.  ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan ).  But it is so different from other spoken languages of the world that it would take you longer to learn than Latin.  \n\nIf you are looking for one that you can actually learn in a reasonable amount of time and communicate with other people in, try Esperanto.  It's a language created by an amateur linguist from Poland in the last half of the 19th century.  It was intended to be a second language to the world, and allow international trade and diplomacy through a neutral second language.  I began learning it in 2000 and am fluent in it now.  It has a large following (best number we can come up with is about 2 million people speak it in the world today).  It has a large library of literature an music, both translated and original. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto ).  If you would like to know more about Esperanto, just email me, or ask again about Esperanto.\n\nIf you are looking for a natural language, try Mandarin Chinese.  It is very logical language.  All verb conjugation's are the same (unlike any European language).  It has almost no rule exceptions, but you probably won't pick it up quickly.  It's complexity comes from the fact that every word can have 5 different meanings depending on the tone it is spoken with.  ( http://www.chinesepod.com )
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language is a tool humans use to communicate.\nlanguages have developed over the years. No scientific rules were used to develop languages.\nGrammar and spellings were introduced later when the need was felt to standardize things.\nYou will find many inconsistencies in every language.
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All European languages except Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and Basque belong to the Indo-European language family.  A number of Indian languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi, Singhalese and Punjabi also belong to this family.\n\nWithin this family there are other smaller groups.  Latin, Romanian, French, Italian and Spanish belong to a group known as 'Romance' - after the Romans.  Over time these languages have influenced and borrowed from eachother.  English belongs to the Germanic group - but has borrowed extensively also from Latin and French.\n\nOther groups are 'Germanic' (Dutch, English, Swedish ...), 'Slavic' (Russian, Bulgarian ...), 'Celtic' (Welsh, Breton, Cornish ...).  Some languages are Indo-European but in groups of their own - such as Albanian and Greek.\n\nIt is often wrongly asserted that French, Italian etc. 'grew out of' Latin.  This is based on the false assumption that because Latin is 'dead', that it must somehow be the 'root'.  Actually, Latin and other Romance languages all developed from the same or similar roots.\n\nLanguages can be likened to species - as they diverge geographically (and politically etc.), they diverge structurally, too.  So, in the same way that humans did not evolve FROM Chimpanzees (but evolved from the same common ancestors AS chimpanzees), French evolved from the same roots as Latin did.
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I don't think you'll get a OBJECTIVE (is this better, Mr. Jip? hehe) answer on this, because people are just limited to the languages they know. \n\nFrom a linguistic standpoint, this notion of a language that "the best at doing what a language should do" (how does one measure this?) is by no means limited to one, sole language.  In reality, all languages meet the communicative needs of their speakers.  If for some reason, it doesn't, then the speaker will make the language fit their needs by either inventing new words or borrowing a word from another language.\n\nEnglish may seem like the front runner, but people around the world have proven the point outlined in my post above.  If people can do this with English, then surely people can do it - and have done it - with, say, Hawaiian or Icelandic.  At one, English was in their position, being restricted to those in the British Isles.\n\n***EDIT***\n\nAfter having received some clarification on this issue, I have come to the conclusion that this question has a lot of relevance to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. Essentially, it maintains that a person's world is shaped by their language. For example, a person who does not have the word "love" in their language, may not know what love is. However, SWF hypothesis has been criticized. One of which is that you don't need a word to express what you feel or to express a concept that you have no word for.  The debate on this is very interesting, and so I recommend reading the following Wikipedia article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_hypothesis
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it's still used.\ni guess it's universal. old language and all
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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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For something a bit more involved then a simple dictionary definition, I use Word Origins: An Exploration and History of Words and Language by Wilfred Funk\n\nThere is a link below to buy a copy.
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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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Language is, basically, a form of communication that takes several forms. It is used verbally, when speaking, written, when sending messages or letters or communicating information in books, newspapers etc, and in sign language, commonly known as body language. When we talk to each other verbally we only remember about 7% of what is said. 55% of direct personal communication comes from body language (i.e. Non-verbal communication) and 38% from attitude. Each language has evolved from primeval grunting that developed into common recogniseable sounds that were then put together to form words and sentences.\n\nA rather quaint biblical explanation of different languages is contained in the Bible's Old Testament story of the Tower of Babel found in Genesis, chapter 2 verses 1 - 9.\n\nThe people tried to build a tower that would reach God who, as we all know, is supposed to be everywhere, so the building of a tower was not necessary and an example of man's ignorance and stupidity. thus God (Jehovah) caused the builders to speak different languages so that they were incomprehensible to each other and forced to abandon the work. This attempts to account for the diversification of language as the builders were supposed to be scattered about the world and thus explain that people in different countries speak separate languages. This concept still works today with not only language differences that occur when a country's border is crossed, but also in different areas of the same country with regional dialects. This difference spawned the word 'Babble' to describe someone speaking unintelligably.\n\nAs Moses is credited with writing the first five books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Numbers, collectively known as the Pentateuch) it may be assumed that the story alludes to the Babylonian ziggurats, or pyramids, which were, to Moses, examples of Gentile pride.
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Well English...Started from Anglo-Saxon.Some words are borrowd or adopted. Some were created by accident.
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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.