When did humans develop language?

-what do you think caused humans to develop language skills?

-what order do you think the modes of language developed in and why? (sign, speech, writing)

Language develops at different rates from person to person. Some people gain language skills really early and others take a lot longer to get a grasp of language. I think it’s impossible to pinpoint an exact time or even a year when humans developed language. Because it is undecided about who the first people on the planet were you can never trace back to who first spoke words. What Is language anyway, is it the grunts of cavemen, the click communication that some tribes in Africa use or is it modern day words and sentences?

According to the website (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/language) the definition for language is Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols. So going on this definition language can be any of the three things, (sign, speech or writing) therefore I don’t believe that the time of when humans developed language can be pinpointed at all, and there would be an even spread of people backing the side of all three options.

The order language developed was sign, speech then writing. What the video showed us about how babies learn, in my opinion, explained how humans have developed language. I think language has been developed in the same order the baby learned it but a lot slower. Babies point at things when they aren’t sure what to say and hold their arms up when they want to be held. This can happen before the child can speak. The first step then being sign which is a way of communicating to parents without talking. 

Cavemen were believed to use grunts and noises to communicate the same way a baby starts to speak by speaking gibberish and making noises. As time went by people began using more form in their noises and those noises became words.  The last step in language is writing because you can’t write if you don’t have words and you don’t have words if you can’t talk.

This is how I come to the conclusion that the order language was developed was sign, speech and then finally writing. 

                                                                                                                                  Kyle Murphy

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