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Languages and Linguistics

Mr.Mystery

(185 posts)

13. All languages probably are NOT related.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue Oct 11, 2022, 10:43 AM

Oct 2022

That’s the consensus view among most linguists who research these things. It’s possible that all existing languages had one common root language, but the origins of language are too old to know one way or another.

What we do know is that wherever there are humans, they use language. So if humans developed independently of one another, they no doubt had unrelated languages.

Spanish and Italian are related because they both emerged from Latin, Latin and Greek are related because they’re both part of western Indo-European etc.

But that doesn’t mean Chinese is related to English. If they sprang from a common root language, it’s too ancient to tell.

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Magnificent Linguistic Family Tree Shows How all Languages are Related. [View all] elleng Oct 2022 OP

KNR and bookmarking. For later. Thank you for sharing this fascinating find. niyad Oct 2022 #1

AHHH!!! So Venetian DOES have Spanish roots! fierywoman Oct 2022 #2

This was very impressive, though with one glaring error DFW Oct 2022 #3

YES, NEXT time, let us know! elleng Oct 2022 #6

Next time I'm in Rinkydink, I promise! DFW Oct 2022 #7

LOLOL! elleng Oct 2022 #8

It has been a while for me, too DFW Oct 2022 #11

cool graphic ProfessorPlum Oct 2022 #4

Right, a few extended branches missing, but things to study. elleng Oct 2022 #9

1. Great post and illustration, thanks. sl8 Oct 2022 #5

It was pretty close, though DFW Oct 2022 #10

I just didn't know that you guys had still been around for the last 2000 years! elleng Oct 2022 #12

Well, close except for the African, (many) Asian, American, & Australian languages. sl8 Oct 2022 #14

It didn't appear to me that languages not spoken in Europe were intended to be included DFW Oct 2022 #15

Probably so. sl8 Oct 2022 #16

Non-European languages that are spoken in Europe were included except for the oldest one DFW Oct 2022 #17

India is on the tree. There is wnylib Oct 2022 #18

All languages probably are NOT related. Mr.Mystery Oct 2022 #13

Thanks for pointing that out and saving me the wnylib Oct 2022 #19