Language is one of the highest forms of culture, it is one of many factors that

separate humans from animals. The scientists find the study of language…

Anthropologists endeavor to show a relation between he motor skills of the brains of

monkeys with those of humans in an attempt to discover the origin of languages.(LOS

34) They propose which seems perfectly valid untill someone else comes along and so

‘no, no the earth is flat! Just look out over the land it is as flat as flat can be!’ Linguists

spend their time conjuring up tons of theories on the origins of languages. Time would be

better spent if those anthropologists joined the linguists and came right out and told the

world – yes there use to be only one language let us call it the Adamic language after

Adam the first man from which all languages stem. A closer look suggests that all

languages come from one and the same root.

If we take a closer look at the way the information age is shaping the way we

communicate in regards to language, it wouldn’t be too far amiss to say that although we

might not be going back to the, Adamic language, (and seeing how languages are slowly

becoming extinct, we might be headed towards a time when the world may start using

only one language. (Internet by pg39)If we look at some of the latest legislation

(Escholz, 15) The official language of the world, and there will be no more race issues no

more misunderstandings, no more language barriers to keep the citizens of the world

from communicating with each other Will we have lost a language like they say the

eskimos and other countries languages are slowly fading away, so are we losing many

languages or mereley gaining one (Escholz 14).

To start with, after taking a look at what the ‘experts’ have gathered

together for us under the title of the primitive vocabulary. You may take a few minutes to

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ponder these words. Are there any words in this list that strike out at you saying, you

knew me when you were about 4 years old, when we are still trying to find the words to

describe the things we need. The motor theory says that through our neurons and alpha

and beta waves that languages developed primarily due to a verbal equivalent of what

was a gestural concept. physical action or motor movement.

The days of the week as denoted by the worlds languages share a similarity that is

too alike to pass off as a mere coincidence. I hope to show you by comparing the days of

the week in several languages that the tongues of the world did indeed come from one

source.

Now as far as the future of languages is concerned. It seems eminent that all the

diverse languages and tongues of the world will eventually assimilate just like people do.

When we write it will probably be the same type font. There will be a way t, a common

middle ground that all the languages will gravitate towards. Now Sanskrit, the kanji of

the Chinese, the Heiroglyphs, all these systems of writing may eventually be conjoined

and made into one language. Everyone has an internet address, and the common point

about our address is the @ symbol. And usually roman characters for the name, The

internet will allow people to communicate quickly and easily all over the world. ( Barry

547)

Escholz, Paul, Alfred Rosa, Virginia Clark, Language Awareness Essays for College
Writers seventh edition, New York: St. Martins Press, 1997.

This book is mainly a text on how to write better but a few pages are
dedicated to languages that are going extinct and it shows how we are losing
languages like 4 dialects of Eskimo. This will help me give weight to my second

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 point that we are losing the barriers of language and eventually one day we might
see a time when we all use one language again as in the beginning. Because will
see the extinction of languages.

Shrodes, Caroline, Finestone Harry, Micheal Shugrue, “The Internet” The Concious
Reader Eighth Edition. Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon, 2001.

I will use “The Internet” by Dave Barry to help me establish that the information
age is upon us. There are virtual translators that help me translate into 9,000 languages.

Grossman, Ruth and Frank J Cappeluti, The Human Adventure A Survey of Past
Civlizations. New York: The McMilllan Company, 1970.

This text was laying around the house it is probably my dad’s introduction to
something class but it is good because it is simple and points out that barriers in
languages were formed and from those barriers came language, each distinct and separate
having words of its own. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Did language barriers
cause the various worlds spoken word to arise or is it the case that the languages caused
the barriers or did the or communication breakdown,

The notes I took on Japanese when I lived on Japan

Kalb Japanese and the Motor Theory of Language Electronic Publication on Los website
of papers From Dr. Kalb. Illinois, 1991
http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/japanese.htm 5/2/2004 LOS= Language and
Evolution: Homepage Robin Allott

From this we are givin more examples of how Japanese and English are similar
and it gives an example of testing sound symbolism and how easy Japanese was to guess
the correct adjective example. It points out that since linguist agree that Japanese is an
isolated language set way apart from any of the other altaic languages yet many of the
words like hone for the word bone really shows that or at least causes us to suspect that
the language we speak today comes down to us after much history and geographical
crossings, but it shows us too that it seems to have a common stem, up above the Indo-
eurasiatic mother tongue to its mother’s mother the real mother tongue. It is a helpful
linguistical tool.

Allot, Robin. Table of the primitive vocabulary. Electronic Publication on L.O.S.

website by http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/japanese.htm , 5/2/2004 pg. 1. 26

This is a table of vocabulary that is necessary for anybody who is 4 yrs old. It
shows us the really only basic words we ever really need, to actually survive . This willl
help me to show that these more basic words haven’t digressed from the mother tongue
as much as the more sophisticated words and by using a quote from my next source in

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collaboration with this one I can show how similar the words one – finger and two –pal
are almost universall to every language.

6. The American Scientist Online-Volume 87 Number 2 Page 138 10.1511/1999.2.138

March- April 1999 The gestural Origins Of Languages,
http://www.americandcientist.org/template/assetdetail/assetid/15639?fulltext=true
copyright Sigma Xi, The scientific Research Society. 5/2/2004

This goes into how the anthropologists view the many origins of languages and goes into
things like The mama theory or the tata and poopoo theory for explaining the origins of
languages.

Ayto, John. Dictionary of Word Origins New York: Arcade Publishing, 1991