I was looking into the etymology of Lake Ontario, when I learned that it derived from the Huron “Ontari’io”, which got me thinking about how different languages even came about. Of course language changes, with expressions, slang, and such. But some languages are completely different in pronunciation of each letter, and some don’t even use the Latin alphabet at all.
How did we begin speaking different languages? Why might humans not have established one language thousands of years ago?
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I’ve always thought that as people explored and settled new areas, their food sources changed. So, a forest people who have been eating red meat and root vegetable moving to the coast or desert would chew new food differently. Build different muscles and mouth structures, and begin to pronounce words differently.
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