Historticle on languages
I was sitting on the last bench of the classroom, huddled with my friends. Doing particularly nothing as it was one of those days when the classroom is bustling but there is nothing to do. When I got this thought;
'What if the language was never found?'
There wouldn't be textbooks, no exams, no homework and no school. But also there wouldn't be ebooks, no online friends, Harry Potter wouldn't have been written, songs would not have lyrics, the internet wouldn't have been made so there wouldn't have been cat videos! Now, if that isn't end of the world what is?
Hence with a grateful soul, I googled how our world was saved from ending up in silences.
1) Birth of the language (60,000 - 200,000 years ago) :
That's just a period of old stone age as we've had no idea how and who and when and why started making languages. Did the homo sapiens back then grunted something before killing their prey? Maybe... I've sent an email to the Flintstones I'll let you know when I get an appropriate reply.
That's just a period of old stone age as we've had no idea how and who and when and why started making languages. Did the homo sapiens back then grunted something before killing their prey? Maybe... I've sent an email to the Flintstones I'll let you know when I get an appropriate reply.
2) Protolanguages (4000 - 10,000 years ago)
The simplest definition of proto-language would be that it's the ancestor of all the languages in existence right now. Like Proto-Indo-European or Shino-Tibetan. Again we are waiting for the mail, but scholars (if they existed) used this around that time. Of course, drawings or markings have been found but I guess we weren't that evolved then get it?
The simplest definition of proto-language would be that it's the ancestor of all the languages in existence right now. Like Proto-Indo-European or Shino-Tibetan. Again we are waiting for the mail, but scholars (if they existed) used this around that time. Of course, drawings or markings have been found but I guess we weren't that evolved then get it?

3) Text/markings which finally made sense (1st millennial B.C.)
This is the period of time when languages started to be marked or written. This is the period from which we got those history chapters. All the noble old languages trace back to this time including Egyptian, Sumerian, Greek, and old Chinese. And the oldest known language in the world Tamil made its debut in this period at around 300 B.C. Also, the newer ones like Hebrew, Latin, old Persian etc. Of course, there must be some really interesting tale behind their findings but as you know... we just don't know!
This is the period of time when languages started to be marked or written. This is the period from which we got those history chapters. All the noble old languages trace back to this time including Egyptian, Sumerian, Greek, and old Chinese. And the oldest known language in the world Tamil made its debut in this period at around 300 B.C. Also, the newer ones like Hebrew, Latin, old Persian etc. Of course, there must be some really interesting tale behind their findings but as you know... we just don't know!

4) The times we do know about (first millennium AD/CE)
You can also call this period the old period of languages as all the old languages were found around this time. Arabic, Old English (not Shakespeare), old German, old French, old Hindi, Kannada, old Dutch, Telugu, old Turkic, old Irish, Javanese, Japanese.
You can also call this period the old period of languages as all the old languages were found around this time. Arabic, Old English (not Shakespeare), old German, old French, old Hindi, Kannada, old Dutch, Telugu, old Turkic, old Irish, Javanese, Japanese.
This is also the time when King Sejong decided to make writings simpler and available to all the peasants as the other languages were too hard and complicated for them to learn. (Chinese had 2000 characters, I leave the word count to your imagination) that's how Korean was found which is still considered one of the best because of its scientific design and excellence.

5) Standardisation of languages (1000 AD to 1900 CE)
This was a time when everyone made their languages and standardised them. Most probably the language you speak (and hasn't been mentioned already) was found at this time. Many dialects were also made during this time. While the languages we used right now came into proper existence around this period including Italian, Spanish, French, English... you get the point. Also, sign language was standardised which was in use but became official post this. So was Baillie found by Louis Braille at the age of fifteen. Lots of respect to him.
This was a time when everyone made their languages and standardised them. Most probably the language you speak (and hasn't been mentioned already) was found at this time. Many dialects were also made during this time. While the languages we used right now came into proper existence around this period including Italian, Spanish, French, English... you get the point. Also, sign language was standardised which was in use but became official post this. So was Baillie found by Louis Braille at the age of fifteen. Lots of respect to him.

6) Fictional age (1900 to present)
Now post the standardisation and extinction of many languages comes the period of artificial languages. L.L Zemenhof created Esperanto, J.R.P Tolkien made Quenya (Hobbit and Lord of rings anyone) Marc Okrand made Klingon (From star trek fluently spoken by many) Paul Former made Na'vi for James Cameron's Avatar and recently an Indian lyricist Madhan Karky made a language with 750 words and 40 grammatical rules called 'kiliki' to be used by kalakeya tribe in the movie bahubali.
Now post the standardisation and extinction of many languages comes the period of artificial languages. L.L Zemenhof created Esperanto, J.R.P Tolkien made Quenya (Hobbit and Lord of rings anyone) Marc Okrand made Klingon (From star trek fluently spoken by many) Paul Former made Na'vi for James Cameron's Avatar and recently an Indian lyricist Madhan Karky made a language with 750 words and 40 grammatical rules called 'kiliki' to be used by kalakeya tribe in the movie bahubali.
If you want you can add C++ and java here as well but I feel they are more mathematical than linguistic unless you like to speak in binomial digits.
So, there it is a wide history of languages with a good amount of question marks here and there. But as you see and imagine a lot of hard work has been done so that we can speak and write the way we can right now. From doodles to slangs we've come a long way and evolved so much over the years...
But I guess some things never change smh.

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Written by
K. R. P.
Source: Google|Wiki
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