Since most animals have some sounds that they can make and most members of a single species make the same sounds, why do humans have so many very different languages and is there a single language that is the most natural for humans to speak?
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> Why do humans have so many very different languages.
Because of sexual competition. People use language as a signal for intelligence, and intelligence gets you laid. How can you use language to demonstrate intelligence? By inventing and remixing. Then natural linguistic evolution happens. Birds have high variance for colorful plumage, for the same reason.
> Is there a single language that is the most natural for humans to speak.
There is guaranteed to be a correct answer to this, but there is no way anyone can figure it out. I predict this thread will be full of people who claim it’s subjective and therefore there is no answer by definition but I think that’s just a lazy cop out. I don’t think we will know unless we build a super intelligent AI that is to us as we are to chimps and it tells us.
Maybe a language based solely on vowels. But that’s little more than a stab in the dark. Have you heard Portuguese? These fuckers have names like João.
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