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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Geography. The world was vast before even 1995. Before intercontinental telephony mid 1900s it would take months for someone from Europe to communicate with someone in the Americas.
Most people never ventured even 15 miles from their place of birth before the industrial revolution
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