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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Think about the names of inventions from the past couple of centuries, and how we had to have new words invented for them. Things like the telephone or automobile. These words are created by mashing two descriptive words together. But people are lazy, and change what they say when talking about the same thing.
Telephone became phone. Phone became a verb. Cell phones replaced telephones, and now people are just as likely to call their phone a cell. So the verb “phone” couldn’t exist in the same way before telephones came into use. And a cell was something completely different in the 80s.
Imagine that evolution over thousands of years, with huge distances separating people. Mix in slang and different groups coming up with different names for the same thing.
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