In his book, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and The Meaning of Everything, master translator David Bellos argues that “Babel tells the wrong story. The most likely original use of human speech was to be different, not the same.”
World’s Languages Traced Back to Single African Mother Tongue: Scientists
New Zealand researchers have traced every human language — from English to Mandarin — back to an ancestral language spoken in Africa 50,000 to 70,000 years ago.
Scientists say they have traced the world’s 6,000 modern languages — from English to Mandarin — back to a single “mother tongue,” an ancestral language spoken in Africa 50,000 to 70,000 years ago.
New research, published in the journal Science, suggests this single ancient language resulted in human civilization — a Diaspora — as well as advances in art and hunting tool technology, and laid the groundwork for all the world’s cultures.
The research, by Quentin Atkinson from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, also found that speech evolved far earlier than previously thought. And the findings implied, though did not prove, that modern language originated only once, an issue of controversy among linguists, according to the New York Times.
What was that about Genesis 11 and the origin of language? Science has silenced you yet again.
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a chi può interessare: fare attenzione a che non siete stupidi. ok ciao.
“To whom it may concern, be careful that you’re not stupid. Okay, bye.”
As often as you have accused me of calling you stupid, you are until this day without sources. Why? I have never called you stupid. Via this post, you have attempted to at the very least imply that I’m stupid. Don’t play innocent and say that this post wasn’t addressed to me.
Anyhow, I’m not offended. I just wanted to address your insults directly since you say that you don’t insult and I also wanted to prove my cleverness even further. My first language is Spanish. Italian isn’t too far from there being that they are both Germanic languages with Latin roots. I can read a fair share of Italian and there is also Google translate - just in case I erred in my translation. Next time you try to insult me, insult me in Sumerian, though I’d be surprised to see such an insult when considering that no one has deciphered that language in it’s entirety. In other words, via the internet, I have access to most of the world’s languages - your insults are therefore, useless and signs of immaturity.
