Eli5 why are there so many languages if we all came Crome the same place why didn’t we just keep using the same language?
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People spread out before language was developed.
All the neighborhood cavemen said ooga booga and binky dinky. But then some of them moved across the river and never came back. Over time they began developing their own words for all the different things they encountered or observed. The words they came up with were completely different than the words being developed by the cavemen back in their old hood.
As they spread out more and more and lost touch with each other, each group was developing their own unique sounds or words to describe the same thing. As time went on, each language developed more and more.
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