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Origin of Language

Only one species of hominids was able to develop language based on signs and symbols, I mean the homo sapiens about 50,000 years ago, but it was not until a few centuries ago it began to be written into stones or other artifacts using human language. Anthropology, history, genetics, linguistics and other sciences that relate to special phenomenon that occurred in a relatively short time. With language we became humans with talents and abilities.

There had to be certain biological-genetic conditions as a result of the interaction of hominids for millions of years. The species best adapted can survive longer and we, with the use of language we were more efficient compared to other animals that outnumbered us in physical strength and speed.

Similar to mitochondrial DNA tracing to determine our biological lineage, the old and the Indo-European languages, Sanskrit, Latin, etc..serve as a reference to observe the evolution of the same in other languages and ​​in the course of time also became primary languages. Our language clearly shows how it originated and developed over time in many different languages.

They have discovered many paintings and representations that show the complexity of human thought for thousands of years. The language became part of a homo sapiens needing abstract thinking and invention, and evolution of the vocal apparatus to produce intelligible sounds that are the result of micro-mutations, which differ in our human condition.

The Australopithecus, Homo erectus, Neanderthal man and other apes failed to evolve their language skills.Scientists describe the emergence of language as the special phenomenon when there is a significant increase in the size and activity of our brain.

The main characteristic of human beings is language and therefore culture. The emergence of language allowed us to interact with our neighbors more effectively. The language frees us because it gives us the ability to move in time and space. The ideas of living could be shared and receive feedback. Such interaction between nervous systems can be compared with the interaction that exists today between the world’s computers via the Internet. The language reflects our habitat, that is, the social context in which we lived.

Only through the study of languages, including the language of science, or mathematics, we become human and discover what we are, where we live, where we came from and where we are going. Only our species can write poetry and music, to develop arts, innovate technologies, to live in other places outside the planet, etc.. The gift of language has allowed the human race a great success in just fifty thousand years of existence.

Rolando Ernesto Tellez