The origins of language - how was language created?

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How did language appear and how come humans are the only ones on the whole Earth to have it? The question of language origins is one of the biggest mysteries of human evolution. There is a countless amount of theories that try to explain it. Here I present my take on this problem.

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[magellanicspaceclouds]

Historical linguistics was my favorite linguistics course in college by far. More like this please!

[MickeyGSinger]

“Cat, i know you’re very busy …”😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😾😾😾

[derlaschi]

Hi Julie. I'm watching your videos almost from the beginning, and I'm deeply impressed about how they have evolved over time. Technically, as well as content-based. This one is absolutely stunning! Keep on doing so!

[rsfaeges]

Thanks! This video is especially informative about aspects of the evolution of human language that I have heard of, but haven't heard/seen explained before.

[herblison]

Julie and other Youtube presenters like Physics Girl are real treasures. There should be a special category either in the Oscars or the Emmy's to acknowledge their accomplishments.

[deewesthill]

I love the study of words -- etymology, ancient origins, history, lore, and changes in meanings over short to long time periods. Years ago i went through an English dictionary and noticed that words beginning with consonant clusters have meanings related in some way, closely or not so closely. Two obvious examples are gl- and sn- words whose meanings have something to do with reflective light or a smooth reflective surface (glacier, glance, glass, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, etc.), and a nose or snout, mucus, or to grab something to eat as if with a snout (snack, snap, sneeze, sniff, snore, snort, snot, snub) respectively. But there are a lot more, and it is a really interesting thing to study. Rhyming words sometimes have related meanings too, such as bright and light and bump, clump, hump, lump; there are many more of those too. There are also single-consonant related words, some examples out of many are "rounded shape" -- bag, ball, batch, bell, boll, bowl, bud, bug, bulk, bullet, bump, bun, bunch, bush, bust, butt etc.; "something hard" or "something wooden" -- back, bake, bar, barge, barn, bash, bat, German Baum ("tree"), beam, beat, bench, board, boat, French bois ("wood"), bone, build; "young or small animal" or "fertility" -- calf, canine, cat, colt, coney, cub, cur, kid, kit (small fox), kitten.

[KrishnakumarRa]

How easy you've made the understanding of the complex factors required for speech! Linguistic big history is one giant, amazing thought experiment. I love it.

[_datapoint]

I like Juli’s pronunciation of Noam Chomsky. I think I will use it from now on.

[mamarnaogozar]

one of the best chanel that recommendation by youtube, i always liked to learn about the etymology of some words and now, because of your videos, my curiosity go beyond my first language to other languages

[oregonmusicarchive]

Hi, Julie. Nice to see a new video from you! Hope you are well.

[evanashworth]

Hi Julie. I'm going to make a video on the origins of language and wanted to get a sense of how others have approached this topic. I had never heard of you before the other day, but I just wanted to say that this, and all of your videos, are really great. Keep up the good work!

[SzymonWeiss]

Great video. Thank you. Important remark is pronouncing Chomsky with tʃ⁠. +having in mind he's a sophisticated Russian troll.

[gaufrid]

Excellent Julie! My take on language learning as an adult is that you learn the particles first, because they are paramount to the structure of any language. I've learned Cebuano and Tagalog this way. My wife is a true polyglot. She was fortunate to have two mother tongues (Higaonon Binukid, her tribal language, and Cebuano). As a result, she has also been able to learn three more Filipino languages, and learned English at school.

[jay]

I was going to start quoting others in the comments, ad each time you brought up this information. Brilliant!

[jeffanderson]

My mother spoke multiple languages. By 8 months old I could speak French..her 'mother tongue' in simple 3-4 word sentences. By 14 months I also understood and could reply in Cree ..My mother is native so I guess you could say they were a dual mother tongue family. It took me until 4 to be comfortable in speaking and comprehending English even though we had lived in a mainly English speaking community from the time I was 6 months old. Over the years I have acquired competency in Spanish and am able to get the gist of a person's meaning in German if the spoke a bit slower. My questions for you are: I understand this was early. Why and how? also of 5 children I am the only one who acquired this ability. Additional info...for approximately 3 generations before me about one third of the people spoke early and or spoke multiple languages. My son also is fluent in the same languages as me. So the question is why some and not all? Last question is English took me the longest even though I lived in a mainly English community; my step dad and sibling only spoke English fluently. Why would that be? I thoroughly enjoy your videos . they are well put together easy to understand and very informative. Merci pour vos efforts. Vous êtes une personne très admirable. Je te souhaite le meilleur Julie

[michaelzapletal]

Thank you for your channel! Love from Austria❤

[drewalhanifa]

You are one of the greatest if not the e. I study several different languages in my spare time and your insights and outfits are always refreshing.

[larsbitsch-larsen]

Hi Julie. This is the best explanation I have seen in more than 15 years. As a doctor I have studied medical history and found that many medical concepts were developed as medicine advanced. Hippocrates the founder of modern medicine (using observation as an important tool), did not have a word for observation. This word only shows up many centuries later etc
Good work.

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[harshaddivekar]

Very descriptive and analytical video !👌 It covers historical, evolutionary, scientific and almost all other aspects of human languages. Thanks for sharing the video !💐