Language is appreciably transcendent and the most crucial invention for humans since time began. All of us would agree it is the first thing we use when we wake up and the last thing we use before we go to bed. It is used consistently throughout a human’s average day, no matter where you are. You are using it all the time even now the voice in your head reading this is using language. We know to an extent that the world of today cannot live without it, but language is never considered as important to many of us because we are ungrateful for a marvellous invention born within us. It has had the power to change the world before and perhaps will do so yet again. Martin Luther King fought for the rights of black people using this weapon only. Each
An important difference is that languages are technologies in which use our own body. Spoken language was developed by using body parts for both breathing and chewing to express various speech sounds. Communication initially involved animal-like habits with gestures and postures. Such communication had serious limitations. It must have been impossible to communicate about the past and the future, to speak about unnoticeable feelings like jealousy, to express opinions, ask questions or give particular instructions to do things. Expanding these to sounds to speech was an important automatic milestone for us accomplished through naming objects, activities, and conditions. The particular parts that different languages follow is how to combine sounds into words and words into phrases and sentences. This evolution proceeded over hundreds of thousands of years, or perhaps longer. And we may not even be at the end of the evolutionary
We obviously had it in us to invent language. Humans continue to consciously and deliberately invent languages. Math and music, for example. Computer languages and sign language. Imagine how language became now so essential out of nothing, first, there was no language, now there is. At one time our ancestors did not speak and now we do. Somehow creatures who did not speak came up with words and eventually started scribbling them. Since people who had no language invented it, we could say that illiterates invented language. We see a version of language invention every generation. Children, especially in school years, new words are introduced. If you go back to a period in your life and try to recall the vocabulary you and your group invented, I’m sure that at a young age you did not know what a selfie was, but when you got a smartphone perhaps you became aware as they became more and more popular, but children of this generation know it at an early age. Rude hand gestures are still a language. Even 30% percent of twins make their own