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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A group of humans on one side of the world and a group of humans on the other develop the ability for language at the same time, but because they have no contact with each other, their languages will share nothing in common. Ultimately the arrangements of sounds and how they’re marked in writing are completely arbitrary.
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