As time goes, a language develops generation by generation. For example, Tik Tok is no more a time reference in 2022. Tik Tok is a famous social media sharing app for the current generation.
How exactly did a language develop? Who created?
I think this is a question I would like to find an answer. I don’t know if I can find an exact answer but the history tells us that a language developed from a communication tool. The history says a communication tool in Stone Age was signals using different instruments like fire, trenches, stones. But is it true?
I don’t have an answer. I just remembered when I was young. My best friend and I tried to communicate secretly so we created our signal language based on the existing language. It’s like a computer hash key method. We agreed on a number 7, and decided to push each alphabet to 7 places. Thus, hello became “lossv.” Now I look back, I felt like there must be something Stone Age people wanted to communicate as well with their friends and family. They could have agreed on certain signals based on signs. But I am not really sure how they could create a language with a sound for these signals.
There are still a lot of tribes in undeveloped areas, such as Papua New Guinea. They have their own speech when they communicate themselves but they don’t have their own written languages.
How did the very first human language develop and pass to so many generations?